Weakly pancyclic vertices in dense nonbipartite graphs

Abstract

Let $G$ be a graph of girth $g$ and circumference $c.$ A vertex $v$ of $G$ is called weakly pancyclic if $v$ lies on an $\ell$-cycle for every integer $\ell$ with $g\le \ell\le c.$ We prove that if $G$ is a nonbipartite graph of order $n\ge 5$ and size at least $\left\lfloor(n-1)^2/4\right\rfloor+2,$ then $G$ contains three weakly pancyclic vertices, with one exception. This strengthens a result of Brandt from 1997. We also pose a related problem.