Disjoint chorded cycles of the same length

Guantao Chen, Ronald J. Gould, Kazuhide Hirohata, Katsuhiro Ota, Songling Shan

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Abstract

Bollobás and Thomason showed that a multigraph of order n and size at least n + c (c ≥ 1) contains a cycle of length at most 2(⌊n/c⌋ + 1) ⌊log2 2c⌋. We show in this paper that a multigraph (with no loop) of order n and minimum degree at least 5 contains a chorded cycle (a cycle with a chord) of length at most 300 log2 n. As an application of this result, we show that a graph of sufficiently large order with minimum degree at least 3k+8 contains k vertex-disjoint chorded cycles of the same length, which is analogous to Verstraëte's result: A graph of sufficiently large order with minimum degree at least 2k contains k vertex-disjoint cycles of the same length.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1030-1041
Number of pages12
JournalSIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
Volume29
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015

Keywords

  • Chorded cycles
  • Cycles
  • Minimum degree

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Mathematics(all)

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