Note on Long Directed Cycles in Eulerian Digraphs
Published: Oct 30, 2025
Last Updated: Oct 30, 2025
Authors:Jiangdong Ai, Gregory Gutin, Fankang He, Anders Yeo
Abstract
Huang, Ma, Shapira, Sudakov and Yuster (Comb. Prob. Comput. 2013) proved that every Eulerian digraph of average out-degree $d$ has a directed cycle of length at least $\sqrt{d}.$ We improve the lower bound from $\sqrt{d}$ to $\sqrt{2d}-3/2.$