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Minimum covers of complete graphs by $4$-cycles

, $b$ $4$-cycles, and $c$ $6$-cycles. … It follows that the edges of $K_n-M$ can be decomposed into $4$-cycles. By then covering pairs of edges of $M$ with $4$-cycles we get a covering of size $\lceil \binom{n}{2}/4+n/8 \rceil$. …
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Efficient Hamiltonian cycle algorithms for graph classes

One class of graphs for which many NP-hard problems (including finding a Hamiltonian cycle) are easy (linear-time) are graphs of bounded tree-width. Indeed, by Courcelle's theorem any problem which c …
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How many simple cycles can a graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges have?

Entringer and Slater considered this problem in their paper On the Maximum Number of Cycles in a Graph. Let $G$ be a simple connected graph with $m$ edges and $n$ vertices. … It is useful to re-parametrize by letting $d=m-n+1$, and defining $\psi(d)$ to be the maximum number of cycles of a graph with $m-n+1=d$. …
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Tree-width of graphs in which any two cycles touch

Since there is always an edge between two disjoint cycles, this implies that there are graphs in $\mathcal G_g$ with arbitrarily large clique minors. … Let $C_1, \dots, C_5$ be long cycles and choose a red vertex $r_i$ and a blue vertex $b_i$ on each $C_i$ such that $r_i$ and $b_i$ are far apart on $C_i$. …
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On cycles in self-centered graphs

No. $C_{2k+1}$ is self-centered with $r(G)=d(G)=k$, but obviously does not contain $C_{2k}$ as a subgraph. With regards to the revised question, here is a proof that $G$ contains a cycle of length …
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Construction of graphs of high girth and chromatic number

Yes, there are many explicit constructions, although some of them are rather complicated. See this talk of Noga Alon, where he presents a very comprehensive history of the problem. Probably the simp …
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Algorithms for heaviest edge-disjoint cycle collection contained in graph's set of edges

The problem is NP-hard, even in the unweighted case (all weights equal to $1$). Indeed, given a graph $G$ and an integer $k$, deciding if $G$ contains an Eulerian subgraph with at least $k$ edges is N …
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Number of edge-disjoint cycles in a holey graph

For a graph $G$, let $\nu(G)$ be the maximum number of edge-disjoint cycles, and let $\tau(G)$ be the minimum size of a set of edges $X$ such that $G-X$ has no cycles. …
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Compute number vertex disjoint cycles in graph surrounding a face

If we are trying to pack vertex disjoint cycles that contain $t$, we might as well include this 'closest' cycle. Now just recurse. …
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