Directed Hamilton cycles in digraphs and matching alternating Hamilton cycles in bipartite graphs
Abstract
In 1972, Woodall raised the following Ore type condition for directed Hamilton cycles in digraphs: Let be a digraph. If for every vertex pair and , where there is no arc from to , we have , then 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 be a balanced bipartite graph. If for any and , where and are nonadjacent, we have , then every perfect matching of is contained in a Hamilton cycle. The lower bounds in both results are tight. In this paper, we reduce both bounds by , 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"