The almost-sure existence conjecture for increasing Hamiltonian paths

Let KnK_n be the complete graph on nn vertices, and let ff be an edge ordering of KnK_n, chosen uniformly at random. An ff-increasing Hamiltonian path is a Hamiltonian path whose edges occur in increasing order under ff.

Increasing Hamiltonian path conjecture. With probability tending to 11 as nn\to\infty, KnK_n contains an ff-increasing Hamiltonian path.

The preceding theorem establishes only probability at least 1/e+o(1)1/e+o(1), while earlier results give almost-Hamiltonian increasing paths asymptotically almost surely. Numerical simulations suggest that the stronger almost-sure Hamiltonian statement should hold.

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Mikhail Lavrov and Po-Shen Loh, “Hamiltonian increasing paths in random edge orderings”, arXiv:1403.0948 (2014).

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