We generalise a result of Corrádi and Hajnal and show that every graph with average degree at least $\tfrac{4}{3}kr$ contains $k$ vertex disjoint cycles, each of order at least $r$, as long as $k \geq 6$. This bound is sharp when $r=3$.
We prove that for any given $\varepsilon>0$ and $d\in [0,1]$, every sufficiently large $(\varepsilon, d)$-dense graph $G$ contains for each odd integer $r$ at least $(d^r-\varepsilon)|V(G)|^r$ cycles of length $r$. Here, $G$ being $(\varepsilon, d)$-dense means that every set $X$ containing at least~$\varepsilon\,|V(G)|$ vertices spans at least $\tfrac d2\, |X|^2$ edges, and what we really count is the number of homomorphisms from an $r$-cycle into $G$. The result adresses a question of Y. Kohayakawa, B. Nagle, V. Rödl, and M. Schacht.
Balogh, Csaba, Jing and Pluhár recently determined the minimum degree threshold that ensures a $2$-coloured graph $G$ contains a Hamilton cycle of significant colour bias (i.e., a Hamilton cycle that contains significantly more than half of its edges in one colour). In this short note we extend this result, determining the corresponding threshold for $r$-colourings.
We show that every $k$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices whose minimum $(k-2)$-degree is at least $(5/9+o(1))n^2/2$ contains a Hamiltonian cycle. A construction due to Han and Zhao shows that this minimum degree condition is optimal. The same result was proved independently by Lang and Sahueza-Matamala.
We present a general method for counting and packing Hamilton cycles in dense graphs and oriented graphs, based on permanent estimates. We utilize this approach to prove several extremal results. In particular, we show that every nearly $cn$-regular oriented graph on $n$ vertices with $c>3/8$ contains $(cn/e)^n(1+o(1))^n$ directed Hamilton cycles. This is an extension of a result of Cuckler, who settled an old conjecture of Thomassen about the number of Hamilton cycles in regular tournaments. We also prove that every graph $G$ on $n$ vertices of minimum degree at least $(1/2+\varepsilon)n$ con…
We will show that for $α>0$ there is $n_0$ such that if $G$ is a graph on $n\geq n_0$ vertices such that $αn< δ(G)< (n-1)/2$, then for every $n_1+n_2+\cdots +n_l= δ(G)$, $G$ contains a disjoint union of $C_{2n_1},C_{2n_2}, \dots, C_{2n_l}$ unless $G$ has a very specific structure.
Tight Hamiltonian Cycles in Uniformly Dense $3$-Graphs
Institute for Basic Science (IBS)(基础科学研究院);School of Mathematics and Statistics, Beijing Institute of Technology(北京理工大学数学与统计学院);School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学数学科学学院)
Let $G$ be a graph obtained as the union of some $n$-vertex graph $H_n$ with minimum degree $δ(H_n)\geqαn$ and a $d$-dimensional random geometric graph $G^d(n,r)$. We investigate under which conditions for $r$ the graph $G$ will a.a.s. contain the $k$-th power of a Hamilton cycle, for any choice of $H_n$. We provide asymptotically optimal conditions for $r$ for all values of $α$, $d$ and $k$. This has applications in the containment of other spanning structures, such as $F$-factors.
Motivated by longstanding conjectures regarding decompositions of graphs into paths and cycles, we prove the following optimal decomposition results for random graphs. Let $0<p<1$ be constant and let $G\sim G_{n,p}$. Let $odd(G)$ be the number of odd degree vertices in $G$. Then a.a.s. the following hold: (i) $G$ can be decomposed into $\lfloorΔ(G)/2\rfloor$ cycles and a matching of size $odd(G)/2$. (ii) $G$ can be decomposed into $\max\{odd(G)/2,\lceilΔ(G)/2\rceil\}$ paths. (iii) $G$ can be decomposed into $\lceilΔ(G)/2\rceil$ linear forests. Each of these bounds is best possible. We actually…
We study properties of random subcomplexes of partitions returned by (a suitable form of) the Strong Hypergraph Regularity Lemma, which we call regular slices. We argue that these subcomplexes capture many important structural properties of the original hypergraph. Accordingly we advocate their use in extremal hypergraph theory, and explain how they can lead to considerable simplifications in existing proofs in this field. We also use them for establishing the following two new results. Firstly, we prove a hypergraph extension of the Erdős-Gallai Theorem: for every $δ>0$ every sufficiently lar…
In this note, we show that for any $m \in \{1,2, \dots , q +1 \}$, if $G$ is a polarity graph of a projective plane of order $q$ that has an oval, then $G$ contains a subgraph on $m + \binom{m}{2}$ vertices with $m^2+\frac{m^4}{8q} - O ( \frac{m^4}{q^{3/2} } +m )$ edges. As an application, we give the best known lower bounds on the Turán number $\mathrm{ex}(n, C_4)$ for certain values of $n$. In particular, we disprove a conjecture of Abreu, Balbuena, and Labbate concerning $\mathrm{ex}(q^2-q-2, C_4)$ where $q$ is a power of $2$.
A famous conjecture of Lovász states that every connected vertex-transitive graph contains a Hamilton path. In this article we confirm the conjecture in the case that the graph is dense and sufficiently large. In fact, we show that such graphs contain a Hamilton cycle and moreover we provide a polynomial time algorithm for finding such a cycle.
We study sufficient conditions for the existence of Hamilton cycles in uniformly dense $3$-uniform hypergraphs. Problems of this type were first considered by Lenz, Mubayi, and Mycroft for loose Hamilton cycles and Aigner-Horev and Levy considered it for tight Hamilton cycles for a fairly strong notion of uniformly dense hypergraphs. We focus on tight cycles and obtain optimal results for a weaker notion of uniformly dense hypergraphs. We show that if an $n$-vertex $3$-uniform hypergraph $H=(V,E)$ has the property that for any set of vertices $X$ and for any collection $P$ of pairs of vertices…
We consider the irreducibility of switch-based Markov chains for the approximate uniform sampling of Hamiltonian cycles in a given undirected dense graph on $n$ vertices. As our main result, we show that every pair of Hamiltonian cycles in a graph with minimum degree at least $n/2+7$ can be transformed into each other by switch operations of size at most $10$, implying that the switch Markov chain using switches of size at most $10$ is irreducible. As a proof of concept, we also show that this Markov chain is rapidly mixing on dense monotone graphs.
Let G be a digraph (without parallel edges) such that every directed cycle has length at least four; let $β(G)$ denote the size of the smallest subset X in E(G) such that $G\X$ has no directed cycles, and let $γ(G)$ be the number of unordered pairs {u,v} of vertices such that u,v are nonadjacent in G. It is easy to see that if $γ(G) = 0$ then $β(G) = 0$; what can we say about $β(G)$ if $γ(G)$ is bounded? We prove that in general $β(G)$ is at most $γ(G)$. We conjecture that in fact $β(G)$ is at most $γ(G)/2$ (this would be best possible if true), and prove this conjecture in two special cases: …
We make progress on three long standing conjectures from the 1960s about path and cycle decompositions of graphs. Gallai conjectured that any connected graph on $n$ vertices can be decomposed into at most $\left\lceil \frac{n}{2}\right\rceil$ paths, while a conjecture of Hajós states that any Eulerian graph on $n$ vertices can be decomposed into at most $\left\lfloor \frac{n-1}{2}\right\rfloor$ cycles. The Erdős-Gallai conjecture states that any graph on $n$ vertices can be decomposed into $O(n)$ cycles and edges. We show that if $G$ is a sufficiently large graph on $n$ vertices with linear mi…
Given an $n$-vertex graph $G$ with minimum degree at least $d n$ for some fixed $d > 0$, the distribution $G \cup \mathbb{G}(n,p)$ over the supergraphs of $G$ is referred to as a (random) {\sl perturbation} of $G$. We consider the distribution of edge-coloured graphs arising from assigning each edge of the random perturbation $G \cup \mathbb{G}(n,p)$ a colour, chosen independently and uniformly at random from a set of colours of size $r := r(n)$. We prove that such edge-coloured graph distributions a.a.s. admit rainbow Hamilton cycles whenever the edge-density of the random perturbation satisf…
We prove that a random cubic graph almost surely is not homomorphic to a cycle of size 7. This implies that there exist cubic graphs of arbitrarily high girth with no homomorphisms to the cycle of size 7.
Motivated by the concept of transition system investigated by Kotzig in 1968, Krivelevich, Lee and Sudakov proposed a more general notion of incompatibility system to formulate the robustness of Hamiltonicity of Dirac graphs. Given a graph $G=(V,E)$, an {\em incompatibility system} $\mathcal{F}$ over $G$ is a family $\mathcal{F}=\{F_v\}_{v\in V}$ such that for every $v\in V$, $F_v$ is a family of edge pairs in $\{\{e,e'\}: e\ne e'\in E, e\cap e'=\{v\}\}$. An incompatibility system $\mathcal{F}$ is \emph{$Δ$-bounded} if for every vertex $v$ and every edge $e$ incident with $v$, there are at mos…
Berge Hamilton cycles in a random sparsification of dense hypergraphs
Center for AI and Natural Sciences, Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS)(韩国高级科学研究院人工智能与自然科学中心);Extremal Combinatorics and Probability Group (ECOPRO), Institute for Basic Science (IBS)(基础科学研究院极端组合与概率研究组);Department of Mathematical Sciences, KAIST(韩国科学技术院数学系)
Consider a family of graphs having a fixed girth and a large size. We give an optimal lower asymptotic bound on the number of even cycles of any constant length, as the order of the graphs tends to infinity.
We consider problems about packing and counting Hamilton $\ell$-cycles in hypergraphs of large minimum degree. Given a hypergraph $\mathcal H$, for a $d$-subset $A\subseteq V(\mathcal H)$, we denote by $d_{\mathcal H}(A)$ the number of distinct \emph{edges} $f\in E(\mathcal H)$ for which $A\subseteq f$, and set $δ_d(\mathcal H)$ to be the minimum $d_{\mathcal H}(A)$ over all $A\subseteq V(\mathcal H)$ of size $d$. We show that if a $k$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices $\mathcal H$ satisfies $δ_{k-1}(\mathcal H)\geq αn$ for some $α>1/2$, then for every $\ell<k/2$ $\mathcal H$ contains $(1-o(1…
Consider the random subgraph process on a base graph $G$ on $n$ vertices: a sequence $\lbrace G_t \rbrace _{t=0} ^{|E(G)|}$ of random subgraphs of $G$ obtained by choosing an ordering of the edges of $G$ uniformly at random, and by sequentially adding edges to $G_0$, the empty graph on the vertex set of $G$, according to the chosen ordering. We show that if $G$ has one of the following properties: 1. There is a positive constant $\varepsilon > 0$ such that $δ(G) \geq \left( \frac{1}{2} + \varepsilon \right) n$; 2. There are some constants $α, β>0$ such that every two disjoint subsets $U,W$ of …
For a graph X, let f_0(X) denote its number of vertices, d(X) its minimum degree and Z_1(X;Z/2) its cycle space in the standard graph-theoretical sense (i.e. 1-dimensional cycle group in the sense of simplicial homology theory with Z/2-coefficients). Call a graph Hamilton-generated if and only if the set of all Hamilton circuits is a Z/2-generating system for Z_1(X;Z/2). The main purpose of this paper is to prove the following: for every s > 0 there exists n_0 such that for every graph X with f_0(X) >= n_0 vertices, (1) if d(X) >= (1/2 + s) f_0(X) and f_0(X) is odd, then X is Hamilton-generate…
The Kohayakawa-Nagle-Rödl-Schacht conjecture roughly states that every sufficiently large locally $d$-dense graph $G$ on $n$ vertices must contain at least $(1-o(1))d^{|E(H)|}n^{|V(H)|}$ copies of a fixed graph $H$. Despite its important connections to both quasirandomness and Ramsey theory, there are very few examples known to satisfy the conjecture. We provide various new classes of graphs that satisfy the conjecture. Firstly, we prove that adding an edge to a cycle or a tree produces graphs that satisfy the conjecture. Secondly, we prove that a class of graphs obtained by gluing complete mu…
Recently it was shown (by the author) that every graph of size $q$ (the number of edges) and minimum degree $δ$ is hamiltonian if $q\leδ^2+δ-1$ (arXiv:1107.2201v1). In this paper we present the exact analog of this result for dominating cycles: if $G$ is a 2-connected graph with $q\le8$ if $δ=2$ and $q\le (3(δ-1)(δ+2)-1)/2$ if $δ\ge3$, then each longest cycle in $G$ is a dominating cycle. The result is sharp in all respects.
Given a complete graph with positive weights on its edges, we define the weight of a subset of edges as the product of weights of the edges in the subset and consider sums (partition functions) of weights over subsets of various kinds: cycle covers, closed walks, spanning trees. We show that if the weights of the edges of the graph are within a constant factor, fixed in advance, of each other then the bulk of the partition function is concentrated on the subsets of a particularly simple structure: cycle covers with few cycles, walks that visit every vertex only few times, and spanning trees wi…
The Directed Hamilton-Waterloo Problem asks for a directed $2$-factorization of the complete symmetric digraph $K_v^*$ where there are two non-isomorphic $2$-factors. In the uniform version of the problem, factors consist of either directed $m$-cycles or $n$-cycles. In this paper, necessary conditions for a solution of this problem are given, and the problem is solved for the factors with $(m, n)\in \{(4,6),(4,8),(4,12),(4,16),(6,12)$,$(8,16),(3,5),(3,15),(5,15)\}$.
In a recent paper, we showed that every sufficiently large regular digraph G on n vertices whose degree is linear in n and which is a robust outexpander has a decomposition into edge-disjoint Hamilton cycles. The main consequence of this theorem is that every regular tournament on n vertices can be decomposed into (n-1)/2 edge-disjoint Hamilton cycles, whenever n is sufficiently large. This verified a conjecture of Kelly from 1968. In this paper, we derive a number of further consequences of our result on robust outexpanders, the main ones are the following: (i) an undirected analogue of our r…
Goodman-type lower bounds for odd cycles I: The dense regime
Center for AI and Natural Science, Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), Korea(韩国高等科学研究院人工智能与自然科学中心);School of Computing, KAIST, Korea(韩国科学技术院计算机学院);School of Computational Sciences, Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), Korea(韩国高等科学研究院计算科学学院)
Paul Erdős and László Lovász established by means of an example that there exists a maximal intersecting family of $k-$sets with approximately $(e-1)k!$ blocks. László Lovász conjectured that their example is best known example which has the maximum number of blocks. Later it was disproved. But the quest for such examples remain valid till this date. In this short note, by computing transversal size of a certain series of uniform intersecting families constructed over the cycle graph, we provide an example which has more than $(\frac{k}{2})^{k-1}$ (approximately) blocks.
In this paper we study the randomly edge colored graph that is obtained by adding randomly colored random edges to an arbitrary randomly edge colored dense graph. In particular we ask how many colors and how many random edges are needed so that the resultant graph contains a fixed number of edge disjoint rainbow Hamilton cycles. We also ask when in the resultant graph every pair of vertices is connected by a rainbow path.
For graphs $H_1,H_2$ by $r^*(H_1,H_2)$ we denote the minimum number of edges in a graph $G$ on $r(H_1,H_2)$ vertices such that $G\to (H_1,H_2)$. We show that for each pair of natural numbers $k,n$, $k\le n$, where $k$ is odd and $n$ is large enough, we have $$r^*(C_n,C_k)=\lceil (n+1)(2n-1)/2\rceil \,.$$
The notion of robust expansion has played a central role in the solution of several conjectures involving the packing of Hamilton cycles in graphs and directed graphs. These and other results usually rely on the fact that every robustly expanding (di)graph with suitably large minimum degree contains a Hamilton cycle. Previous proofs of this require Szemerédi's Regularity Lemma and so this fact can only be applied to dense, sufficiently large robust expanders. We give a proof that does not use the Regularity Lemma and, indeed, we can apply our result to suitable sparse robustly expanding digrap…
In this paper we modify slightly Razborov's flag algebra machinery to be suitable for the hypercube. We use this modified method to show that the maximum number of edges of a 4-cycle-free subgraph of the n-dimensional hypercube is at most 0.6068 times the number of its edges. We also improve the upper bound on the number of edges for 6-cycle-free subgraphs of the n-dimensional hypercube from the square root of 2 - 1 to 0.3755 times the number of its edges. Additionally, we show that if the n-dimensional hypercube is considered as a poset, then the maximum vertex density of three middle layers …
Let $\overrightarrow{P_k}$ and $\overrightarrow{C_k}$ denote the directed path and the directed cycle of order $k$, respectively. In this paper, we determine the precise maximum size of $\overrightarrow{P_k}$-free digraphs of order $n$ as well as the extremal digraphs attaining the maximum size for large $n$. For all $n$, we also determine the precise maximum size of $\overrightarrow{C_k}$-free digraphs of order $n$ as well as the extremal digraphs attaining the maximum size. In addition, Huang and Lyu [\textit{Discrete Math. 343(5) 2020}] characterized the extremal digraphs avoiding an orient…
The Multicolour Size--Ramsey Number of an Even Cycle
School of Mathematics, Nanjing University(南京大学数学系);ECOPRO, Institute for Basic Science(基础科学研究所ECOPRO);School of Mathematics and Statistics, Fuzhou University(福州大学数学与统计学院)
In a graph $G$, let $μ_G(xy)$ denote the number of edges between $x$ and $y$ in $G$. Let $λK_{v,u}$ be the graph $(V\cup U,E)$ with $|V|=v$, $|U|=u$, and \[ μ_G(xy)=\begin{cases} λ&\mbox{if $x\in U$ and $y\in V$ or if $x\in V$ and $y\in U$}\\ 0 &\mbox{otherwise.} \\ \end{cases} \] Let $M$ be a sequence of non-negative integers $m_1,m_2,\ldots,m_n$. An $(M)$-cycle decomposition of a graph $G$ is a partition of the edge set into cycles of lengths $m_1,m_2,\ldots,m_n$. In this paper, we establish necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of an $(M)$-cycle decomposition of $λK_{v,u}$.
The Hamilton-Waterloo problem asks for a decomposition of the complete graph into $r$ copies of a 2-factor $F_{1}$ and $s$ copies of a 2-factor $F_{2}$ such that $r+s=\left\lfloor\frac{v-1}{2}\right\rfloor$. If $F_{1}$ consists of $m$-cycles and $F_{2}$ consists of $n$ cycles, then we call such a decomposition a $(m,n)-$HWP$(v;r,s)$. The goal is to find a decomposition for every possible pair $(r,s)$. In this paper, we show that for odd $x$ and $y$, there is a $(2^kx,y)-$HWP$(vm;r,s)$ if $\gcd(x,y)\geq 3$, $m\geq 3$, and both $x$ and $y$ divide $v$, except possibly when $1\in\{r,s\}$.
In this work, the classical Nelson -- Hadwiger problem is studied which lies on the edge of combinatorial geometry and graph theory. It concerns colorings of distance graphs in $ {\mathbb R}^n $, i.e., graphs such that their vertices are vectors and their edges are pairs of vectors at a distance from a given set of postive numbers apart. A series of new lower bounds are obtained for the chromatic numbers of such graphs with different restrictions on the clique numbers and the girths.
Let $F$, $G$ and $H$ be simple graphs. We say $F \rightarrow (G, H)$ if for every $2$-coloring of the edges of $F$ there exists a monochromatic $G$ or $H$ in $F$. The Ramsey number $r(G, H)$ is defined as $r(G, H) = min\{|V (F)|: F \rightarrow (G, H)\}$, while the restricted size Ramsey number $r^{*}(G, H)$ is defined as $r^{*}(G, H) = min\{|E (F)|: F \rightarrow (G, H) , |V (F) | = r(G, H)\}$. In this paper we determine previously unknown restricted size Ramsey numbers $r^{*}(P_3, C_n)$ for $7 \leq n \leq 12$. We also give new upper bound $r^{*}(P_3, C_n) \leq 2n-2$ for even $n \geq 8$.
We introduce and study a $d$-dimensional generalization of Hamiltonian cycles in graphs - the Hamiltonian $d$-cycles in $K_n^d$ (the complete simplicial $d$-complex over a vertex set of size $n$). Those are the simple $d$-cycles of a complete rank, or, equivalently, of size $1 + {{n-1} \choose d}$. The discussion is restricted to the fields $F_2$ and $Q$. For $d=2$, we characterize the $n$'s for which Hamiltonian $2$-cycles exist. For $d=3$ it is shown that Hamiltonian $3$-cycles exist for infinitely many $n$'s. In general, it is shown that there always exist simple $d$-cycles of size ${{n-1} …
For given graphs $G_1, G_2,\ldots, G_n$ and any integer $j$, the size of the multipartite Ramsey number $m_j(G_1, G_2,\ldots, G_n)$ is the smallest positive integer $t$ such that any $n$-coloring of the edges of $K_{j\times t}$ contains a monochromatic copy of $G_i$ in color $i$ for some $i$, $1 \leq i \leq n$, where $K_{j\times t}$ denotes the complete multipartite graph having $j$ classes with $t$ vertices per each class. In this paper we compute the size of the multipartite Ramsey number $m_j(K_{1,2}, P_4, nK_2)$ for any $j,n\geq 2$ and $m_j(nK_2,C_7)$, for any $j\leq4$ and $n\geq 2$.