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A new sufficient condition for a 2-strong digraph to be Hamiltonian

Combinatorics 2024-08-07 v3

Abstract

In this paper we prove the following new sufficient condition for a digraph to be Hamiltonian: {\it Let DD be a 2-strong digraph of order n9n\geq 9. If n1n-1 vertices of DD have degrees at least n+kn+k and the remaining vertex has degree at least nk4n-k-4, where kk is a non-negative integer, then DD is Hamiltonian}. This is an extension of Ghouila-Houri's theorem for 2-strong digraphs and is a generalization of an early result of the author (DAN Arm. SSR (91(2):6-8, 1990). The obtained result is best possible in the sense that for k=0k=0 there is a digraph of order n=8n=8 (respectively, n=9n=9) with the minimum degree n4=4n-4=4 (respectively, with the minimum n5=4n-5=4) whose n1n-1 vertices have degrees at least n1n-1, but it is not Hamiltonian. We also give a new sufficient condition for a 3-strong digraph to be Hamiltonian-connected.

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@article{arxiv.2306.16826,
  title  = {A new sufficient condition for a 2-strong digraph to be Hamiltonian},
  author = {Samvel Kh. Darbinyan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.16826},
  year   = {2024}
}

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20 pages, 2 figures