The University of Birmingham (Live System) Proof of a conjecture of Thomassen on Hamilton cycles in highly connected tournaments
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A conjecture of Thomassen from 1982 states that, for every k, there is an f(k) so that every strongly f(k)-connected tournament contains k edge-disjoint Hamilton cycles. A classical theorem of Camion, that every strongly connected tournament contains a Hamilton cycle, implies that f(1) = 1. So far, even the existence of f(2) was open. In this paper, we prove Thomassen’s conjecture by showing that f(k) = O(k log k). This is best possible up to the logarithmic factor. As a tool, we show that every strongly 10k log k-connected tournament is k-linked (which improves a previous exponential bound). The proof of the latter is based on a fundamental result of Ajtai, Komlós and Szemerédi on asymptotically optimal sorting networks.
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Proof of a conjecture of Thomassen on Hamilton cycles in highly connected tournaments
A conjecture of Thomassen from 1982 states that, for every k, there is an f(k) so that every strongly f(k)-connected tournament contains k edge-disjoint Hamilton cycles. A classical theorem of Camion, that every strongly connected tournament contains a Hamilton cycle, implies that f(1) = 1. So far, even the existence of f(2) was open. In this paper, we prove Thomassen’s conjecture by showing th...
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