{"title":"The Erdős-Gyárfás conjecture holds for P10-free graphs","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.disc.2024.114175","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Erdős-Gyárfás conjecture asserts that every graph with minimum degree at least three has a cycle whose length is a power of 2. Let <em>G</em> be a graph with minimum degree at least 3. We show that if <em>G</em> contains no induced path of order 10, then <em>G</em> contains a cycle of length 4 or 8, and hence the conjecture holds in this case.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50572,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Mathematics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Discrete Mathematics","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012365X24003066","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The Erdős-Gyárfás conjecture asserts that every graph with minimum degree at least three has a cycle whose length is a power of 2. Let G be a graph with minimum degree at least 3. We show that if G contains no induced path of order 10, then G contains a cycle of length 4 or 8, and hence the conjecture holds in this case.
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Discrete Mathematics provides a common forum for significant research in many areas of discrete mathematics and combinatorics. Among the fields covered by Discrete Mathematics are graph and hypergraph theory, enumeration, coding theory, block designs, the combinatorics of partially ordered sets, extremal set theory, matroid theory, algebraic combinatorics, discrete geometry, matrices, and discrete probability theory.
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