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Minimum degrees for powers of paths and cycles

Combinatorics 2023-06-05 v2

Abstract

We study minimum degree conditions under which a graph GG contains kkth powers of paths and cycles of arbitrary specified lengths. We determine precise thresholds, assuming that the order of GG is large. This extends a result of Allen, B\"ottcher and Hladk\'y [J. Lond. Math. Soc. (2) 84(2) (2011), 269--302] concerning the containment of squares of paths and squares of cycles of arbitrary specified lengths and settles a conjecture of theirs in the affirmative.

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@article{arxiv.2005.02210,
  title  = {Minimum degrees for powers of paths and cycles},
  author = {Eng Keat Hng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.02210},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

60 pages, 3 figures; suggestions by anonymous referees incorporated; accepted for publication in SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0906.3299 by other authors

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