scholarly journals Hamilton Cycles in Sparse Robustly Expanding Digraphs

10.37236/7418 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Lo ◽  
Viresh Patel
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Degree ◽  
Directed Graphs ◽  
Hamilton Cycle ◽  
Regularity Lemma ◽  
Hamilton Cycles ◽  
Szemeredi's Regularity Lemma

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 sparser robustly expanding digraphs.

scholarly journals Cycles and Matchings in Randomly Perturbed Digraphs and Hypergraphs

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 909-927 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL KRIVELEVICH ◽  
MATTHEW KWAN ◽  
BENNY SUDAKOV
Keyword(s):  
Perfect Matching ◽  
Minimum Degree ◽  
Random Perturbation ◽  
Hamilton Cycle ◽  
Regularity Lemma ◽  
Hamilton Cycles ◽  
Interesting Application ◽  
Discrete Structures ◽  
Szemeredi's Regularity Lemma ◽  
Strong Expansion

We give several results showing that different discrete structures typically gain certain spanning substructures (in particular, Hamilton cycles) after a modest random perturbation. First, we prove that adding linearly many random edges to a densek-uniform hypergraph ensures the (asymptotically almost sure) existence of a perfect matching or a loose Hamilton cycle. The proof involves an interesting application of Szemerédi's Regularity Lemma, which might be independently useful. We next prove that digraphs with certain strong expansion properties are pancyclic, and use this to show that adding a linear number of random edges typically makes a dense digraph pancyclic. Finally, we prove that perturbing a certain (minimum-degree-dependent) number of random edges in a tournament typically ensures the existence of multiple edge-disjoint Hamilton cycles. All our results are tight.

scholarly journals Tilings in Randomly Perturbed Dense Graphs

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
JÓZSEF BALOGH ◽  
ANDREW TREGLOWN ◽  
ADAM ZSOLT WAGNER
Keyword(s):  
High Probability ◽  
Minimum Degree ◽  
Graph Model ◽  
Regularity Lemma ◽  
Arbitrary Graph ◽  
Random Graph Model ◽  
Dense Graphs ◽  
Szemeredi's Regularity Lemma ◽  
Vertex Disjoint ◽  
Special Case

A perfect H-tiling in a graph G is a collection of vertex-disjoint copies of a graph H in G that together cover all the vertices in G. In this paper we investigate perfect H-tilings in a random graph model introduced by Bohman, Frieze and Martin [6] in which one starts with a dense graph and then adds m random edges to it. Specifically, for any fixed graph H, we determine the number of random edges required to add to an arbitrary graph of linear minimum degree in order to ensure the resulting graph contains a perfect H-tiling with high probability. Our proof utilizes Szemerédi's Regularity Lemma [29] as well as a special case of a result of Komlós [18] concerning almost perfect H-tilings in dense graphs.

scholarly journals Stability for Vertex Cycle Covers

10.37236/5185 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
József Balogh ◽  
Frank Mousset ◽  
Jozef Skokan
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Degree ◽  
Independent Set ◽  
Stability Result ◽  
Natural Generalization ◽  
Regularity Lemma ◽  
Property A ◽  
Vertex Graph ◽  
Szemeredi's Regularity Lemma ◽  
Cycle Covers ◽  
Positive Integers

In 1996 Kouider and Lonc proved the following natural generalization of Dirac's Theorem: for any integer $k\geq 2$, if $G$ is an $n$-vertex graph with minimum degree at least $n/k$, then there are $k-1$ cycles in $G$ that together cover all the vertices.This is tight in the sense that there are $n$-vertex graphs that have minimum degree $n/k-1$ and that do not contain $k-1$ cycles with this property. A concrete example is given by $I_{n,k} = K_n\setminus K_{(k-1)n/k+1}$ (an edge-maximal graph on $n$ vertices with an independent set of size $(k-1)n/k+1$). This graph has minimum degree $n/k-1$ and cannot be covered with fewer than $k$ cycles. More generally, given positive integers $k_1,\dotsc,k_r$ summing to $k$, the disjoint union $I_{k_1n/k,k_1}+ \dotsb + I_{k_rn/k,k_r}$ is an $n$-vertex graph with the same properties.In this paper, we show that there are no extremal examples that differ substantially from the ones given by this construction. More precisely, we obtain the following stability result: if a graph $G$ has $n$ vertices and minimum degree nearly $n/k$, then it either contains $k-1$ cycles covering all vertices, or else it must be close (in ‘edit distance') to a subgraph of $I_{k_1n/k,k_1}+ \dotsb + I_{k_rn/k,k_r}$, for some sequence $k_1,\dotsc,k_r$ of positive integers that sum to $k$.Our proof uses Szemerédi's Regularity Lemma and the related machinery.

scholarly journals Matchings and Hamilton cycles in hypergraphs

2005 ◽  
Vol DMTCS Proceedings vol. AE,... (Proceedings) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Kühn ◽  
Deryk Osthus
Keyword(s):  
Bipartite Graph ◽  
Perfect Matching ◽  
Minimum Degree ◽  
Hamilton Cycle ◽  
Uniform Hypergraph ◽  
Hamilton Cycles ◽  
Uniform Hypergraphs ◽  
International Audience

International audience It is well known that every bipartite graph with vertex classes of size $n$ whose minimum degree is at least $n/2$ contains a perfect matching. We prove an analogue of this result for uniform hypergraphs. We also provide an analogue of Dirac's theorem on Hamilton cycles for $3$-uniform hypergraphs: We say that a $3$-uniform hypergraph has a Hamilton cycle if there is a cyclic ordering of its vertices such that every pair of consecutive vertices lies in a hyperedge which consists of three consecutive vertices. We prove that for every $\varepsilon > 0$ there is an $n_0$ such that every $3$-uniform hypergraph of order $n \geq n_0$ whose minimum degree is at least $n/4+ \varepsilon n$ contains a Hamilton cycle. Our bounds on the minimum degree are essentially best possible.

scholarly journals Vertex-Oriented Hamilton Cycles in Directed Graphs

10.37236/204 ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Plantholt ◽  
Shailesh K. Tipnis
Keyword(s):  
Directed Graph ◽  
Directed Graphs ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Hamilton Cycle ◽  
Directed Path ◽  
Hamilton Cycles ◽  
Even Order

Let $D$ be a directed graph of order $n$. An anti-directed Hamilton cycle $H$ in $D$ is a Hamilton cycle in the graph underlying $D$ such that no pair of consecutive arcs in $H$ form a directed path in $D$. We prove that if $D$ is a directed graph with even order $n$ and if the indegree and the outdegree of each vertex of $D$ is at least ${2\over 3}n$ then $D$ contains an anti-directed Hamilton cycle. This improves a bound of Grant. Let $V(D) = P \cup Q$ be a partition of $V(D)$. A $(P,Q)$ vertex-oriented Hamilton cycle in $D$ is a Hamilton cycle $H$ in the graph underlying $D$ such that for each $v \in P$, consecutive arcs of $H$ incident on $v$ do not form a directed path in $D$, and, for each $v \in Q$, consecutive arcs of $H$ incident on $v$ form a directed path in $D$. We give sufficient conditions for the existence of a $(P,Q)$ vertex-oriented Hamilton cycle in $D$ for the cases when $|P| \geq {2\over 3}n$ and when ${1\over 3}n \leq |P| \leq {2\over 3}n$. This sharpens a bound given by Badheka et al.

Decompositions into Subgraphs of Small Diameter

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 753-774 ◽  
Author(s):  
JACOB FOX ◽  
BENNY SUDAKOV
Keyword(s):  
Absolute Constant ◽  
Minimum Degree ◽  
Small Diameter ◽  
Constant Factor ◽  
Regularity Lemma ◽  
Small Worlds ◽  
Dense Graph ◽  
Edge Partition ◽  
Szemeredi's Regularity Lemma

We investigate decompositions of a graph into a small number of low-diameter subgraphs. Let P(n, ε, d) be the smallest k such that every graph G = (V, E) on n vertices has an edge partition E = E0 ∪ E1 ∪ ⋅⋅⋅ ∪ Ek such that |E0| ≤ εn2, and for all 1 ≤ i ≤ k the diameter of the subgraph spanned by Ei is at most d. Using Szemerédi's regularity lemma, Polcyn and Ruciński showed that P(n, ε, 4) is bounded above by a constant depending only on ε. This shows that every dense graph can be partitioned into a small number of ‘small worlds’ provided that a few edges can be ignored. Improving on their result, we determine P(n, ε, d) within an absolute constant factor, showing that P(n, ε, 2) = Θ(n) is unbounded for ε < 1/4, P(n, ε, 3) = Θ(1/ε2) for ε > n−1/2 and P(n, ε, 4) = Θ(1/ε) for ε > n−1. We also prove that if G has large minimum degree, all the edges of G can be covered by a small number of low-diameter subgraphs. Finally, we extend some of these results to hypergraphs, improving earlier work of Polcyn, Rödl, Ruciński and Szemerédi.

scholarly journals Random Perturbation of Sparse Graphs

10.37236/9510 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Hahn-Klimroth ◽  
Giulia Maesaka ◽  
Yannick Mogge ◽  
Samuel Mohr ◽  
Olaf Parczyk
Keyword(s):  
Random Graph ◽  
Minimum Degree ◽  
Random Perturbation ◽  
Hamilton Cycle ◽  
Hamilton Cycles ◽  
Bounded Degree ◽  
Sparse Graphs ◽  
Fixed Constant ◽  
Bounded Degree Trees ◽  
Random Part

In the model of randomly perturbed graphs we consider the union of a deterministic graph $\mathcal{G}_\alpha$ with minimum degree $\alpha n$ and the binomial random graph $\mathbb{G}(n,p)$. This model was introduced by Bohman, Frieze, and Martin and for Hamilton cycles their result bridges the gap between Dirac's theorem and the results by Pósa and Korshunov on the threshold in $\mathbb{G}(n,p)$. In this note we extend this result in $\mathcal{G}_\alpha\cup\mathbb{G}(n,p)$ to sparser graphs with $\alpha=o(1)$. More precisely, for any $\varepsilon>0$ and $\alpha \colon \mathbb{N} \mapsto (0,1)$ we show that a.a.s. $\mathcal{G}_\alpha\cup \mathbb{G}(n,\beta /n)$ is Hamiltonian, where $\beta = -(6 + \varepsilon) \log(\alpha)$. If $\alpha>0$ is a fixed constant this gives the aforementioned result by Bohman, Frieze, and Martin and if $\alpha=O(1/n)$ the random part $\mathbb{G}(n,p)$ is sufficient for a Hamilton cycle. We also discuss embeddings of bounded degree trees and other spanning structures in this model, which lead to interesting questions on almost spanning embeddings into $\mathbb{G}(n,p)$.

On the structure of Dense graphs with bounded clique number

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 641-649
Author(s):  
Heiner Oberkampf ◽  
Mathias Schacht
Keyword(s):  
Structural Properties ◽  
Minimum Degree ◽  
Clique Number ◽  
Regularity Lemma ◽  
Probabilistic Argument ◽  
Free Graph ◽  
Degree Condition ◽  
Dense Graphs ◽  
Szemeredi's Regularity Lemma

AbstractWe study structural properties of graphs with bounded clique number and high minimum degree. In particular, we show that there exists a function L = L(r,ɛ) such that every Kr-free graph G on n vertices with minimum degree at least ((2r–5)/(2r–3)+ɛ)n is homomorphic to a Kr-free graph on at most L vertices. It is known that the required minimum degree condition is approximately best possible for this result.For r = 3 this result was obtained by Łuczak (2006) and, more recently, Goddard and Lyle (2011) deduced the general case from Łuczak’s result. Łuczak’s proof was based on an application of Szemerédi’s regularity lemma and, as a consequence, it only gave rise to a tower-type bound on L(3, ɛ). The proof presented here replaces the application of the regularity lemma by a probabilistic argument, which yields a bound for L(r, ɛ) that is doubly exponential in poly(ɛ).

scholarly journals Counting Hamilton cycles in Dirac hypergraphs

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Stefan Glock ◽  
Stephen Gould ◽  
Felix Joos ◽  
Daniela Kühn ◽  
Deryk Osthus
Keyword(s):  
Hamilton Cycle ◽  
Uniform Hypergraph ◽  
Similar Estimate ◽  
Hamilton Cycles

Abstract A tight Hamilton cycle in a k-uniform hypergraph (k-graph) G is a cyclic ordering of the vertices of G such that every set of k consecutive vertices in the ordering forms an edge. Rödl, Ruciński and Szemerédi proved that for $k\ge 3$ , every k-graph on n vertices with minimum codegree at least $n/2+o(n)$ contains a tight Hamilton cycle. We show that the number of tight Hamilton cycles in such k-graphs is ${\exp(n\ln n-\Theta(n))}$ . As a corollary, we obtain a similar estimate on the number of Hamilton ${\ell}$ -cycles in such k-graphs for all ${\ell\in\{0,\ldots,k-1\}}$ , which makes progress on a question of Ferber, Krivelevich and Sudakov.

scholarly journals On Directed Versions of the Hajnal–Szemerédi Theorem

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 873-928 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDREW TREGLOWN
Keyword(s):  
Directed Graph ◽  
Minimum Degree ◽  
Directed Graphs ◽  
Perfect Matchings ◽  
Large Order ◽  
Vertex Disjoint ◽  
Removal Lemma

We say that a (di)graph G has a perfect H-packing if there exists a set of vertex-disjoint copies of H which cover all the vertices in G. The seminal Hajnal–Szemerédi theorem characterizes the minimum degree that ensures a graph G contains a perfect Kr-packing. In this paper we prove the following analogue for directed graphs: Suppose that T is a tournament on r vertices and G is a digraph of sufficiently large order n where r divides n. If G has minimum in- and outdegree at least (1−1/r)n then G contains a perfect T-packing.In the case when T is a cyclic triangle, this result verifies a recent conjecture of Czygrinow, Kierstead and Molla [4] (for large digraphs). Furthermore, in the case when T is transitive we conjecture that it suffices for every vertex in G to have sufficiently large indegree or outdegree. We prove this conjecture for transitive triangles and asymptotically for all r ⩾ 3. Our approach makes use of a result of Keevash and Mycroft [10] concerning almost perfect matchings in hypergraphs as well as the Directed Graph Removal Lemma [1, 6].

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