Mixing time and long paths in graphs

  • Authors:
  • Igor Pak

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • SODA '02 Proceedings of the thirteenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We prove that regular graphs with large degree and small mixing time contain long paths and some other families of graphs as subgraphs. We present then an efficient algorithm for finding long paths. We apply the results to size Ramsey numbers and self-avoiding walks in graphs.