On the resilience of Hamiltonicity and optimal packing of Hamilton cycles in random graphs

Let k = (k1, . . . , kn) be a sequence of n integers. For an increasing monotone graph property P we say that a base graph G = ([n], E) is k-resilient with respect to P if for every subgraph H ⊆ G such that dH (i) ≤ ki for every 1 ≤ i ≤ n the graph G−H possesses P. This notion naturally extends the idea of the local resilience of graphs recently initiated by Sudakov and Vu. In this paper we study the k-resilience of a typical graph from G(n, p) with respect to the Hamiltonicity property where we let p range over all values for which the base graph is expected to be Hamiltonian. Considering this generalized approach to the notion of resilience our main result implies several corollaries which improve on the best known bounds of Hamiltonicity related questions. For one, it implies that for every positive ε > 0 and large enough values of K, if p > K ln n n then with high probability the local resilience of G(n, p) with respect to being Hamiltonian is at least (1 − ε)n...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: CORR
• Authors: Sonny Ben-Shimon, Michael Krivelevich, Benny Sudakov
• Keywords: Base Graph, CORR 2011, Education, Local Resilience, Monotone Graph Property