Powers of Hamiltonian cycles in multipartite graphs

Abstract

We prove that if $G$ is a $k$-partite graph on $n$ vertices in which all of the parts have order at most $n/r$ and every vertex is adjacent to at least a $1-1/r+o(1)$ proportion of the vertices in every other part, then $G$ contains the $(r-1)$-st power of a Hamiltonian cycle

23 pages, 3 figures; final version, to appear in Discrete Mathematics