Erdős problem 71
Is it true that for every infinite arithmetic progression which contains even numbers there is some constant such that every graph with average degree at least contains a cycle whose length is in ?
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Is it true that for every infinite arithmetic progression which contains even numbers there is some constant such that every graph with average degree at least contains a cycle whose length is in ?
In [Er82e] Erdős credits this conjecture to himself and Burr. This has been proved by Bollobás [Bo77]. The best dependence of the constant is unknown.
The infinite arithmetic progression is encoded as a set satisfying P.IsAPOfLength ⊤ (which forces a positive common difference), and "contains even numbers" as the existence of an even element. The average degree of a finite simple graph is SimpleGraph.averageDegree, i.e. , and a cycle whose length is in is a cycle walk w with w.length ∈ P.
True ↔ ∀ (P : Set ℕ), P.IsAPOfLength ⊤ → (∃ n ∈ P, Even n) → ∃ c, ∀ (V : Type) [inst : Fintype V] [DecidableEq V] (G : SimpleGraph V) [inst_2 : DecidableRel G.Adj], c ≤ G.averageDegree → ∃ v w, w.IsCycle ∧ w.length ∈ P