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A Note on Vertex-Disjoint Cycles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2002

JACQUES VERSTRAËTE
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WB, England (e-mail: jbav2@dpmms.cam.ac.uk)
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Abstract

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Häggkvist and Scott asked whether one can find a quadratic function q(k) such that, if G is a graph of minimum degree at least q(k), then G contains vertex-disjoint cycles of k consecutive even lengths. In this paper, it is shown that if G is a graph of average degree at least k2+19k+10 with sufficiently many vertices, then G contains vertex-disjoint cycles of k consecutive even lengths, answering the above question in the affirmative. The coefficient of k2 cannot be decreased and, in this sense, this result is best possible.

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Research Article
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2002 Cambridge University Press