> it has a large number of immediate consequences
It would have been nice to mention a couple.
It would have been nice to mention a couple.
This is enough to establish some results like Thomassen's, that is, containing a sub-graph of minimum degree >= \delta and "girth" >= g (where you need the degree of the regular graph to be large enough in terms of \delta and g).
*girth of a graph is the length of the smallest cycle (a triangle is a cycle of length 3).