{ "id": "1902.05701", "version": "v1", "published": "2019-02-15T06:17:33.000Z", "updated": "2019-02-15T06:17:33.000Z", "title": "On a conjecture of Bondy and Vince", "authors": [ "Jun Gao", "Jie Ma" ], "categories": [ "math.CO" ], "abstract": "Twenty years ago Bondy and Vince conjectured that for any nonnegative integer $k$, except finitely many counterexamples, every graph with $k$ vertices of degree less than three contains two cycles whose lengths differ by one or two. The case $k\\leq 2$ was proved by Bondy and Vince, which resolved an earlier conjecture of Erd\\H{o}s et. al.. In this paper we confirm this conjecture for all $k$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2019-02-15T06:17:33.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "lengths differ", "earlier conjecture", "counterexamples", "nonnegative integer" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }