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Pairs of heavy subgraphs for Hamiltonicity of 2-connected graphs

Combinatorics 2011-09-20 v1

Abstract

Let GG be a graph on nn vertices. An induced subgraph HH of GG is called heavy if there exist two nonadjacent vertices in HH with degree sum at least nn in GG. We say that GG is HH-heavy if every induced subgraph of GG isomorphic to HH is heavy. For a family H\mathcal{H} of graphs, GG is called H\mathcal{H}-heavy if GG is HH-heavy for every HHH\in\mathcal{H}. In this paper we characterize all connected graphs RR and SS other than P3P_3 (the path on three vertices) such that every 2-connected {R,S}\{R,S\}-heavy graph is Hamiltonian. This extends several previous results on forbidden subgraph conditions for Hamiltonian graphs.

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@article{arxiv.1109.4122,
  title  = {Pairs of heavy subgraphs for Hamiltonicity of 2-connected graphs},
  author = {Binlong Li and Zdeněk Ryjáček and Ying Wang and Shenggui Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.4122},
  year   = {2011}
}