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Universality for transversal Hamilton cycles in random graphs

Combinatorics 2026-02-26 v2

Abstract

A tuple (G1,,Gn)(G_1,\dots,G_n) of graphs on the same vertex set of size nn is said to be Hamilton-universal if for every map χ:[n][n]\chi: [n]\to[n] there exists a Hamilton cycle whose ii-th edge comes from Gχ(i)G_{\chi(i)}. Bowtell, Morris, Pehova and Staden proved an analog of Dirac's theorem in this setting, namely that if δ(Gi)(1/2+o(1))n\delta(G_i)\geq (1/2+o(1))n then (G1,,Gn)(G_1,\dots,G_n) is Hamilton-universal. Combining McDiarmid's coupling and a colorful version of the Friedman-Pippenger tree embedding technique, we establish a similar result in the setting of sparse random graphs, showing that there exists CC such that if the GiG_i are independent random graphs sampled from G(n,p)G(n,p), where pClogn/np\geq C\log n/n, then (G1,,Gn)(G_1,\dots,G_n) is Hamilton-universal with high probability.

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@article{arxiv.2505.05385,
  title  = {Universality for transversal Hamilton cycles in random graphs},
  author = {Micha Christoph and Anders Martinsson and Aleksa Milojević},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.05385},
  year   = {2026}
}

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16 pages

R2 v1 2026-06-28T23:25:59.514Z