Properly coloured Hamiltonian cycles in edge-coloured complete graphs

Let K ^c _n be an edge-coloured complete graph on n vertices. Let Δ_mon(K^c _n) denote the largest number of edges of the same colour incident with a vertex of K^c _n. A properly coloured cycleis a cycle such that no two adjacent edges have the same colour. In 1976, BollobÁs and Erd?s[6] conjectured that every K^c _n with Δ_mon(K^c _n)<?n/2?contains a properly coloured Hamiltonian cycle. In this paper, we show that for any ε>0, there exists an integer n₀ such that every K^c _n with Δ_mon(K^c _n)<(1/2–ε)n and n≥n₀ contains a properly coloured Hamiltonian cycle. This improves a result of Alon and Gutin [1]. Hence, the conjecture of BollobÁs and Erd?s is true asymptotically.     

赋权图中的路和圈

本文研究了赋权图中的最长路和最长圈,将关于非赋权图中最长路和最长圈的一些结果推广到赋权图上.     

Random subgraphs of properly edge-coloured complete graphs and long rainbow cycles

We study the upper tail of the number of arithmetic progressions of a given length in a random subset of {1,..., n}, establishing exponential bounds which are best possible up to constant factors in the exponent. The proof also extends to Schur triples, and, more generally, to the number of edges in random induced subhypergraphs of ‘almost linear’ k-uniform hypergraphs.     

Long cycles in critical graphs

It is shown that any k‐critical graph with n vertices contains a cycle of length at least , improving a previous estimate of Kelly and Kelly obtained in 1954. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Graph Theory 35: 193–196, 2000     

Long cycles passing through vertices in k‐connected graphs

In this article, we consider the following problem proposed by Locke and Zhang in 1991: Let G be a k‐connected graph with minimum degree d and X a set of m vertices on a cycle of G. For which values of m and k, with , must G have a cycle of length at least passing through X? Fujisawa and Yamashita solved this problem for the case and in 2008. We provide an affirmative answer to this problem for the case of and .     

Partitioning edge-coloured complete graphs into monochromatic cycles

A conjecture of Erdös, Gyárfás, and Pyber says that in any edge-colouring of a complete graph with r colours, it is possible to cover all the vertices with r vertex-disjoint monochromatic cycles. So far, this conjecture has been proven only for $r=2$. In this note we show that in fact this conjecture is false for all $r⩾3$. We also discuss some weakenings of this conjecture which may still be true.     

Large cycles in 4-connected graphs

The first result states that every 4-connected graph G with minimum degree δ and connectivity κ either contains a cycle of length at least 4δ−κ−4 or every longest cycle in G is a dominating cycle. The second result states that any such graph under the additional condition δ≥α either contains a cycle of length at least 4δ−κ−4 or is hamiltonian, where α denotes the independence number of G. Both results are sharp in all respects.     

Long rainbow cycles and Hamiltonian cycles using many colors in properly edge-colored complete graphs

We prove two results regarding cycles in properly edge-colored graphs. First, we make a small improvement to the recent breakthrough work of Alon, Pokrovskiy and Sudakov who showed that every properly edge-colored complete graph $G$ on $n$ vertices has a rainbow cycle on at least $n-O\left(n^{3∕4}\right)$ vertices, by showing that $G$ has a rainbow cycle on at least $n-O(logn\sqrt{n})$ vertices. Second, by modifying the argument of Hatami and Shor which gives a lower bound for the length of a partial transversal in a Latin Square, we prove that every properly colored complete graph has a Hamiltonian cycle in which at least $n-O\left({(logn)}^2\right)$ different colors appear. For large $n$, this is an improvement of the previous best known lower bound of $n-\sqrt{2n}$ of Andersen.     

不含三角形图的正常染色路和正常染色圈

图G为边染色图,对G中的任一顶点v,定义v的色度dc（v）：G中与顶点v相关联的边中不同染色的数目.用δc（G）表示图G的最小色度,即δc（G）=min{dc（v）：v∈G}.若图G为不含三角形的边染色图,且δc（G）≥2,则G含长为4d-2的正常染色路或长至少为2d-2的正常染色圈.     

Long cycles in 4-connected planar graphs

Let G be a 4-connected planar graph on n vertices. Malkevitch conjectured that if G contains a cycle of length 4, then G contains a cycle of length k for every k∈{n,n−1,…,3}. This conjecture is true for every k∈{n,n−1,…,n−6} with k≥3. In this paper, we prove that G also has a cycle of length n−7 provided n≥10.     

Long cycles in graphs without hamiltonian paths

For a graph G, p(G) and c(G) denote the order of a longest path and a longest cycle of G, respectively. Bondy and Locke [J.A. Bondy, S.C. Locke, Relative length of paths and cycles in 3-connected graphs, Discrete Math. 33 (1981) 111-122] consider the gap between p(G) and c(G) in 3-connected graphs G. Starting with this result, there are many results appeared in this context, see [H. Enomoto, J. van den Heuvel, A. Kaneko, A. Saito, Relative length of long paths and cycles in graphs with large degree sums, J. Graph Theory 20 (1995) 213-225; M. Lu, H. Liu, F. Tian, Relative length of longest paths and cycles in graphs, Graphs Combin. 23 (2007) 433-443; K. Ozeki, M. Tsugaki, T. Yamashita, On relative length of longest paths and cycles, preprint; I. Schiermeyer, M. Tewes, Longest paths and longest cycles in graphs with large degree sums, Graphs Combin. 18 (2002) 633-643]. In this paper, we investigate graphs G with p(G)−c(G) at most 1 or at most 2, but with no hamiltonian paths. Let G be a 2-connected graph of order n, which has no hamiltonian paths. We show two results as follows: (i) if , then p(G)−c(G)≤1, and (ii) if σ₄(G)≥n+3, then p(G)−c(G)≤2.     

Long cycles and paths in distance graphs

For n∈N and D⊆N, the distance graph has vertex set {0,1,…,n−1} and edge set {ij∣0≤i,j≤n−1,|j−i|∈D}. Note that the important and very well-studied circulant graphs coincide with the regular distance graphs.A fundamental result concerning circulant graphs is that for these graphs, a simple greatest common divisor condition, their connectivity, and the existence of a Hamiltonian cycle are all equivalent. Our main result suitably extends this equivalence to distance graphs. We prove that for a finite set D of order at least 2, there is a constant c_D such that the greatest common divisor of the integers in D is 1 if and only if for every n, has a component of order at least n−c_D if and only if for every n≥c_D+3, has a cycle of order at least n−c_D. Furthermore, we discuss some consequences and variants of this result.     

Color degree and alternating cycles in edge-colored graphs

Let G be an edge-colored graph. An alternating cycle of G is a cycle of G in which any two consecutive edges have distinct colors. Let d^c(v), the color degree of a vertex v, be defined as the maximum number of edges incident with v that have distinct colors. In this paper, we study color degree conditions for the existence of alternating cycles of prescribed length.     

Hamiltonian cycles in n‐extendable graphs

A graph G of order at least 2n+2 is said to be n‐extendable if G has a perfect matching and every set of n independent edges extends to a perfect matching in G. We prove that every pair of nonadjacent vertices x and y in a connected n‐extendable graph of order p satisfy deg_G x+deg_G y ≥ p ? n ? 1, then either G is hamiltonian or G is isomorphic to one of two exceptional graphs. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Graph Theory 40: 75–82, 2002     

Edge-dominating cycles in graphs

A set S of vertices in a graph G is said to be an edge-dominating set if every edge in G is incident with a vertex in S. A cycle in G is said to be a dominating cycle if its vertex set is an edge-dominating set. Nash-Williams [Edge-disjoint hamiltonian circuits in graphs with vertices of large valency, Studies in Pure Mathematics, Academic Press, London, 1971, pp. 157-183] has proved that every longest cycle in a 2-connected graph of order n and minimum degree at least is a dominating cycle. In this paper, we prove that for a prescribed positive integer k, under the same minimum degree condition, if n is sufficiently large and if we take k disjoint cycles so that they contain as many vertices as possible, then these cycles form an edge-dominating set. Nash-Williams’ Theorem corresponds to the case of k=1 of this result.     

Long cycles in vertex-transitive graphs

We prove that every connected vertex-transitive graph on n ≥ 4 vertices has a cycle longer than (3n)^1/2. The correct order of magnitude of the longest cycle seems to be a very hard question.