Sparse Kneser graphs are Hamiltonian

DOI10.1145/3188745.3188834MaRDI QIDQ5230348zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Torsten Mütze, Jerri Nummenpalo, Bartosz Walczak

Publication date 22 August 2019

Published in Proceedings of the 50th Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.01636, http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/142379/13/WRAP-sparse-kneser-graphs-hamiltonian-Mutze-2020.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

Kneser graphHamilton cyclevertex-transitive graphodd graph

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eulerian and Hamiltonian graphs (05C45)

Abstract: For integers $kgeq1$ and $ngeq2k+1$, the Kneser graph $K(n,k)$ is the graph whose vertices are the $k$-element subsets of $1,ldots,n$ and whose edges connect pairs of subsets that are disjoint. The Kneser graphs of the form $K(2k+1,k)$ are also known as the odd graphs. We settle an old problem due to Meredith, Lloyd, and Biggs from the 1970s, proving that for every $kgeq3$, the odd graph $K(2k+1,k)$ has a Hamilton cycle. This and a known conditional result due to Johnson imply that all Kneser graphs of the form $K(2k+2^a,k)$ with $kgeq3$ and $ageq0$ have a Hamilton cycle. We also prove that $K(2k+1,k)$ has at least $2^{2^{k-6}}$ distinct Hamilton cycles for $kgeq6$. Our proofs are based on a reduction of the Hamiltonicity problem in the odd graph to the problem of finding a spanning tree in a suitably defined hypergraph on Dyck words.

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