On oriented cycles in randomly perturbed digraphs

Igor Araujo, Jozsef Balogh, Robert Krueger, Simon Piga, Andrew Treglown*

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Abstract

In 2003, Bohman, Frieze, and Martin initiated the study of randomly perturbed graphs and digraphs. For digraphs, they showed that for every α>0, there exists a constant C such that for every n-vertex digraph of minimum semi-degree at least αn, if one adds Cn random edges then asymptotically almost surely the resulting digraph contains a consistently oriented Hamilton cycle. We generalize their result, showing that the hypothesis of this theorem actually asymptotically almost surely ensures the existence of every orientation of a cycle of every possible length, simultaneously. Moreover, we prove that we can relax the minimum semi-degree condition to a minimum total degree condition when considering orientations of a cycle that do not contain a large number of vertices of indegree 1. Our proofs make use of a variant of an absorbing method of Montgomery.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)157-178
Number of pages22
JournalCombinatorics, Probability and Computing
Volume33
Issue number2
Early online date8 Nov 2023
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2024

Bibliographical note

Acknowledgements
Much of the research in this paper was carried out during a visit by the fourth and fifth authors to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The authors are grateful to the BRIDGE strategic alliance between the University of Birmingham and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which partially funded this visit. We thank Andrzej Dudek for pointing us towards Lemma 3.4, and to the referee for their careful review.

Keywords

  • directed graphs
  • cycles
  • absorbing method

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