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Fan-type degree condition restricted to triples of induced subgraphs ensuring Hamiltonicity

Combinatorics 2016-06-14 v4

Abstract

In 1984, Fan gave a sufficient condition involving maximum degree of every pair of vertices at distance two for a graph to be Hamiltonian. Motivated by Fan's result, we say that an induced subgraph HH of a graph GG is ff-heavy if for every pair of vertices u,vV(H)u,v\in V(H), dH(u,v)=2d_{H}(u,v)=2 implies that max{d(u),d(v)}n/2\max\{d(u),d(v)\}\geq n/2. For a given graph RR, GG is called RR-ff-heavy if every induced subgraph of GG isomorphic to RR is ff-heavy. For a family R\mathcal{R} of graphs, GG is R\mathcal{R}-ff-\emph{heavy} if GG is RR-ff-heavy for every RRR\in \mathcal{R}. In this note we show that every 2-connected graph GG has a Hamilton cycle if GG is {K1,3,P7,D}\{K_{1,3},P_7,D\}-ff-heavy or {K1,3,P7,H}\{K_{1,3},P_7,H\}-ff-heavy, where DD is the deer and HH is the hourglass. Our result is a common generalization of previous theorems of Broersma et al. and Fan on Hamiltonicity of 2-connected graphs.

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@article{arxiv.1303.2263,
  title  = {Fan-type degree condition restricted to triples of induced subgraphs ensuring Hamiltonicity},
  author = {Bo Ning},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.2263},
  year   = {2016}
}

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