Liu and Ma's admissible-cycle conjecture

Let an admissible set of kk cycles be a set of cycles whose lengths form an arithmetic progression of length kk with common difference one or two. A graph has minimum degree at least k+1k+1 when every vertex has degree at least k+1k+1.

Liu and Ma's conjecture. Every graph with minimum degree at least k+1k+1 contains kk admissible cycles.

This conjecture implies Erdős' question for k=2k=2, asking whether every simple graph with minimum degree at least three contains two cycles whose lengths differ by one or two. It was completely resolved by Gao, Huo, Liu and Ma through a unified approach.

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Primary source

Jifu Lin, “Size conditions for admissible or consecutive even cycles in graphs”, arXiv:2603.27975 (2026).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2019–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1904.08126.

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