Determine the true order of the number of cycle sets

Determine how close the upper bound on the number of cycle sets of n-vertex graphs, namely 2^{n - \Omega(\sqrt{n}/\log^{3/2} n)}, is to the true number of distinct cycle sets.

Background

The paper proves an upper bound of 2{n - \Omega(\sqrt{n}/\log{3/2} n)} for the number of distinct cycle sets of n-vertex graphs. It also recalls Faudree’s construction, which yields at least 2{n/2} different cycle sets when n is even. The gap between these bounds leaves the actual asymptotic magnitude unresolved, and the authors explicitly state that they do not know how far their theorem is from the truth.

References

At present, we do not know how far Theorem \ref{thm:main} is from the truth.

Improved bound on the number of cycle sets  (2501.09904 - Nenadov, 17 Jan 2025) in Section 1, immediately after Theorem 1