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Extending perfect matchings to Hamiltonian cycles in line graphs

Combinatorics 2023-04-04 v2

Abstract

A graph admitting a perfect matching has the Perfect-Matching-Hamiltonian property (for short the PMH-property) if each of its perfect matchings can be extended to a Hamiltonian cycle. In this paper we establish some sufficient conditions for a graph GG in order to guarantee that its line graph L(G)L(G) has the PMH-property. In particular, we prove that this happens when GG is (i) a Hamiltonian graph with maximum degree at most 33, (ii) a complete graph, or (iii) an arbitrarily traceable graph. Further related questions and open problems are proposed along the paper.

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@article{arxiv.1910.01553,
  title  = {Extending perfect matchings to Hamiltonian cycles in line graphs},
  author = {Marién Abreu and John Baptist Gauci and Domenico Labbate and Giuseppe Mazzuoccolo and Jean Paul Zerafa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.01553},
  year   = {2023}
}

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12 pages, 4 figures