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Hamilton cycles in random geometric graphs

Probability 2012-11-09 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

We prove that, in the Gilbert model for a random geometric graph, almost every graph becomes Hamiltonian exactly when it first becomes 2-connected. This answers a question of Penrose. We also show that in the k-nearest neighbor model, there is a constant \kappa\ such that almost every \kappa-connected graph has a Hamilton cycle.

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@article{arxiv.0905.4650,
  title  = {Hamilton cycles in random geometric graphs},
  author = {József Balogh and Béla Bollobás and Michael Krivelevich and Tobias Müller and Mark Walters},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.4650},
  year   = {2012}
}

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Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-AAP718 the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)

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