A Strengthening on Odd Cycles in Graphs of Given Chromatic Number
A Strengthening on Odd Cycles in Graphs of Given Chromatic Number
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10.1137/20m1387882
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2020-12
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Jun-ming Gao;Qingyi Huo;Jie Ma
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Jun-ming Gao;Qingyi Huo;Jie Ma
Resolving a conjecture of Bollob\'{a}s and Erd\H{o}s, Gy\'{a}rf\'{a}s proved that every graph $G$ of chromatic number $k+1\geq 3$ contains cycles of $\lfloor\frac{k}{2}\rfloor$ distinct odd lengths. We strengthen this prominent result by showing that such $G$ contains cycles of $\lfloor\frac{k}{2}\rfloor$ consecutive odd lengths. Along the way, combining extremal and structural tools, we prove a stronger statement that every graph of chromatic number $k+1\geq 7$ contains $k$ cycles of consecutive lengths, except that some block is $K_{k+1}$. As corollaries, this confirms a conjecture of Verstra\"ete and answers a question of Moore and West.