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The Bondy–Simonovits even cycle theorem

Juan Pablo Traverso Gianini

Palomar Registrypalomar/PALOMAR-2026-10-22-000043Oct 22, 2026math.COscore 0

A Lean 4 / Mathlib formalization of the Bondy–Simonovits theorem: for every k ≥ 2 there is a constant C such that every finite simple graph on n vertices with no cycle of length exactly 2k has at most C·n^(1+1/k) edges, i.e. ex(n, C_2k) = O(n^(1+1/k)). The statement is existential in C (the proof gives C = 16k + 4); the sharper constants of later work and the full range of even cycle lengths in Bondy–Simonovits's paper are not stated. Mathlib has walks and cycles but not this theorem.

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