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Hamiltonian Cycles in Subdivided Doubles

Combinatorics 2025-10-22 v1

Abstract

The subdivided double construction on 4-regular graphs was used by Poto\v{c}nik and Wilson to explore semi-symmetric (edge-transitive but not vertex-transitive) graphs, and can be used to construct every semi-symmetric 4-regular graph that contains a pair of twin vertices. We show that (regardless of symmetry) subdivided doubles have another curious property: they have exponentially many Hamiltonian cycles each of which is complementary to another Hamiltonian cycle.

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@article{arxiv.2510.18359,
  title  = {Hamiltonian Cycles in Subdivided Doubles},
  author = {David Eppstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.18359},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

8 pages, 5 figures. Accepted to Ars Mathematica Contemporanea

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