{"title":"Packing of the k-power of Hamilton cycles","authors":"Wanfang Chen, Changhong Lu, Qi Wu, Long-Tu Yuan","doi":"10.1016/j.disc.2025.114630","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The <em>k</em>-power of a Hamilton cycle is obtained from it by adding edges between all two vertices whose distance in it is at most <em>k</em>. For sufficiently large <em>n</em>, we determine the maximum number of edges of an <em>n</em>-vertex graph without containing the <em>k</em>-power of a Hamilton cycle, and identify all <em>n</em>-vertex graphs with at most <span><math><mi>n</mi><mo>−</mo><mn>2</mn><mi>k</mi><mo>+</mo><mi>ℓ</mi></math></span> edges which do not pack with the <em>k</em>-power of a Hamilton cycle.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50572,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Mathematics","volume":"348 12","pages":"Article 114630"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","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/S0012365X25002389","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 k-power of a Hamilton cycle is obtained from it by adding edges between all two vertices whose distance in it is at most k. For sufficiently large n, we determine the maximum number of edges of an n-vertex graph without containing the k-power of a Hamilton cycle, and identify all n-vertex graphs with at most edges which do not pack with the k-power of a Hamilton cycle.
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