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Directed Hamilton cycles in digraphs and matching alternating Hamilton cycles in bipartite graphs

Combinatorics 2017-10-20 v1

Abstract

In 1972, Woodall raised the following Ore type condition for directed Hamilton cycles in digraphs: Let DD be a digraph. If for every vertex pair uu and vv, where there is no arc from uu to vv, we have d+u)+d(v)Dd^+u)+d^-(v)\geq |D|, then DD has a directed Hamilton cycle. By a correspondence between bipartite graphs and digraphs, the above result is equivalent to the following result of Las Vergnas: Let G=(B,W)G = (B,W) be a balanced bipartite graph. If for any bBb \in B and wWw \in W, where bb and ww are nonadjacent, we have d(w)+d(b)G/2+1d(w)+d(b) \geq |G|/2 + 1, then every perfect matching of GG is contained in a Hamilton cycle. The lower bounds in both results are tight. In this paper, we reduce both bounds by 11, and prove that the conclusions still hold, with only a few exceptional cases that can be clearly characterized.

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@article{arxiv.1710.07206,
  title  = {Directed Hamilton cycles in digraphs and matching alternating Hamilton cycles in bipartite graphs},
  author = {Zan-Bo Zhang and Xiaoyan Zhang and Xuelian Wen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.07206},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

16 pages, 7 figures, published on "Siam Journal on Discrete Mathematics"