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A short proof of the middle levels theorem

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2018

Abstract

Consider the graph that has as vertices all bitstrings of length 2n+1 with exactly n or n+1 entries equal to 1, and an edge between any two bitstrings that differ in exactly one bit. The well-known middle levels conjecture asserts that this graph has a Hamilton cycle for any n greater or equal 1.

In this paper we present a new proof of this conjecture, which is much shorter and more accessible than the original proof.