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Longer cycles in vertex transitive graphs

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arxiv 2302.04255 v1 pith:J5FNJ6PP submitted 2023-02-08 math.CO

Longer cycles in vertex transitive graphs

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In 1979 Babai found a clever argument to prove that every connected vertex transitive graph on $n \ge 3$ vertices contains a cycle of length at least $\sqrt{3n}$. Here we modify his approach to show that such graphs must contain a cycle of length at least $(1 - o(1))n^{3/5}$.

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  1. Long Directed Cycles in Vertex-Transitive Digraphs

    math.CO 2026-07 accept novelty 8.0

    Connected vertex-transitive digraphs on n vertices can have perimeter gap ≥ n/12, and every such digraph contains a directed cycle of length Ω(√n).

  2. Towards the Lov\'{a}sz conjecture via sublinear expanders

    math.CO 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 7.0

    Every connected vertex-transitive graph of order n contains a cycle of length at least n^{2/3-o(1)}.