English

Regular homogeneously traceable nonhamiltonian graphs

Combinatorics 2021-12-07 v2

Abstract

A graph is called homogeneously traceable if every vertex is an endpoint of a Hamilton path. In 1979 Chartrand, Gould and Kapoor proved that for every integer n9,n\ge 9, there exists a homogeneously traceable nonhamiltonian graph of order n.n. The graphs they constructed are irregular. Thus it is natural to consider the existence problem of regular homogeneously traceable nonhamiltonian graphs. We prove two results: (1) For every even integer n10,n\ge 10, there exists a cubic homogeneously traceable nonhamiltonian graph of order n;n; (2) for every integer p18,p\ge 18, there exists a 44-regular homogeneously traceable graph of order pp and circumference p4.p-4. Unsolved problems are posed.

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@article{arxiv.2107.11561,
  title  = {Regular homogeneously traceable nonhamiltonian graphs},
  author = {Yanan Hu and Xingzhi Zhan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.11561},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

8 pages, 7 figures

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