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10-Gabriel graphs are Hamiltonian

Computational Geometry 2015-06-09 v4

Abstract

Given a set SS of points in the plane, the kk-Gabriel graph of SS is the geometric graph with vertex set SS, where pi,pjSp_i,p_j\in S are connected by an edge if and only if the closed disk having segment pipjˉ\bar{p_ip_j} as diameter contains at most kk points of S{pi,pj}S \setminus \{p_i,p_j\}. We consider the following question: What is the minimum value of kk such that the kk-Gabriel graph of every point set SS contains a Hamiltonian cycle? For this value, we give an upper bound of 10 and a lower bound of 2. The best previously known values were 15 and 1, respectively.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1410.0309,
  title  = {10-Gabriel graphs are Hamiltonian},
  author = {Tomáš Kaiser and Maria Saumell and Nico Van Cleemput},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.0309},
  year   = {2015}
}
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