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Constructive extendability in C-expanders

Determine whether there exists a constructive (algorithmic) version of the extendability embedding method for general C-expanders that enables building structures such as the linking structure in polynomial time while maintaining (D,m)-extendability.

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Background

The extendability method used to embed long paths and linking structures into expanders is based on a non-constructive argument. While constructive variants exist for robust expanders (hence for (n,d,λ)-graphs), a general algorithmic version for C-expanders is not known.

This impacts the algorithmic extraction of Hamilton cycles in general expanders; the authors circumvent it for spectral expanders via known constructive tools, leaving the general constructive question unresolved.

References

Although the extendability method as quoted is based on a non-constructive result, and no constructive version is known for C-expanders, there is a version developed in [24] which works for robust expanders, and in particular for (n,d,λ)-graphs, which can be used to construct the linking structure with desired properties in polynomial time.

Hamiltonicity of expanders: optimal bounds and applications (2402.06603 - Draganić et al., 9 Feb 2024) in Proof sketch of Theorem 7.2, Section 7 (Concluding remarks)