Pippenger–Golumbic's inducibility conjecture for cycles

Let CkC_k denote the cycle graph on kk vertices, and let I(Ck)\mathcal{I}(C_k) be its inducibility, the limiting maximum proportion of induced copies of CkC_k in graphs with an increasing number of vertices. For k5k\geq 5, Pippenger–Golumbic's inducibility conjecture.

I(Ck)=k!kkk.\mathcal{I}(C_k)=\dfrac{k!}{k^{k}-k}.

The conjecture gives the exact inducibility of every cycle of length at least five. The source states that Pippenger and Golumbic conjectured this lower bound and showed that it is tight for this family of graphs.

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Primary source

Su Yuan Chan, Kerri Morgan and Julien Ugon, “Bounds On The Inducibility Of Double Loop Graphs”, arXiv:2202.00411 (2022).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2010.11664, arXiv:1702.07342.

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