On Some Cycles in Wenger Graphs

Let p be a prime,q be a power of p,and let Fq be the field of q elements.For any positive integer n,the Wenger graph Wn(q)is defined as follows:it is a bipartite graph with the vertex partitions being two copies of the(n+1)-dimensional vector space Fq^n+1,and two vertices p=(p(1),…,p(n+1))and l=[l(1),…,l(n+1)]being adjacent if p(i)+l(i)=p(1)l(1)i-1,for all i=2,3,…,n+1.In 2008,Shao,He and Shan showed that for n≥2,Wn(q)contains a cycle of length 2 k where 4≤k≤2 p and k≠5.In this paper we extend their results by showing that(i)for n≥2 and p≥3,Wn(q)contains cycles of length 2k,where 4≤k≤4 p+1 and k≠5;(ii)for q≥5,0<c<1,and every integer k,3≤k≤qc,if 1≤n<(1-c-7/3 logq2)k-1,then Wn(q)contains a 2 k-cycle.In particular,Wn(q)contains cycles of length 2 k,where n+2≤k≤qc,provided q is sufficiently large.