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Hamilton cycles in graphs and hypergraphs: an extremal perspective
As one of the most fundamental and well-known NP-complete problems, the
Hamilton cycle problem has been the subject of intensive research. Recent
developments in the area have highlighted the crucial role played by the
notions of expansion and quasi-randomness. These concepts and other recent
techniques have led to the solution of several long-standing problems in the
area. New aspects have also emerged, such as resilience, robustness and the
study of Hamilton cycles in hypergraphs. We survey these developments and
highlight open problems, with an emphasis on extremal and probabilistic
approaches.Comment: to appear in the Proceedings of the ICM 2014; due to given page
limits, this final version is slightly shorter than the previous arxiv
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Resolution of the Oberwolfach problem
The Oberwolfach problem, posed by Ringel in 1967, asks for a decomposition of
into edge-disjoint copies of a given -factor. We show that this
can be achieved for all large . We actually prove a significantly more
general result, which allows for decompositions into more general types of
factors. In particular, this also resolves the Hamilton-Waterloo problem for
large .Comment: 28 page
Long path and cycle decompositions of even hypercubes
We consider edge decompositions of the -dimensional hypercube into
isomorphic copies of a given graph . While a number of results are known
about decomposing into graphs from various classes, the simplest cases of
paths and cycles of a given length are far from being understood. A conjecture
of Erde asserts that if is even, and divides the number
of edges of , then the path of length decomposes . Tapadia et
al.\ proved that any path of length , where , satisfying these
conditions decomposes . Here, we make progress toward resolving Erde's
conjecture by showing that cycles of certain lengths up to
decompose . As a consequence, we show that can be decomposed into
copies of any path of length at most dividing the number of edges of
, thereby settling Erde's conjecture up to a linear factor
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