Pósa–Seymour conjecture for powers of Hamilton cycles

Let GG be a graph on nk2n\geq k\geq 2 vertices, and let δ(G)\delta(G) denote its minimum degree. The Pósa–Seymour conjecture. If

δ(G)kk+1n,\delta(G) \geq \frac{k}{k+1}n,

then GG contains the kkth power of a Hamilton cycle.

This conjecture determines the minimum degree threshold for forcing powers of Hamilton cycles in graphs. The source notes that Komlós, Sárközy and Szemerédi proved it for sufficiently large graphs; the stated finite formulation is therefore solved in the asymptotic sense described there.

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Primary source

Louis DeBiasio, Jie Han, Allan Lo, Theodore Molla, Simón Piga and Andrew Treglown, “Powers of Hamilton cycles in oriented and directed graphs”, arXiv:2412.18336 (2025).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2020–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2212.08315, arXiv:2005.02210.

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