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Semi-degree threshold for anti-directed Hamiltonian cycles

Combinatorics 2014-12-12 v2

Abstract

In 1960, Ghouila-Houri extended Dirac's theorem to directed graphs by proving that if D is a directed graph on n vertices with minimum out-degree and in-degree at least n/2 (i.e. minimum semi-degree at least n/2), then D contains a directed Hamiltonian cycle. Of course there are other orientations of a cycle in a directed graph and it is not clear that the semi-degree threshold for the directed Hamiltonian cycle is the same as the semi-degree threshold for some other orientation. In 1980, Grant initiated the problem of determining the minimum semi-degree threshold for the anti-directed Hamiltonian cycle (an orientation in which consecutive edges alternate direction). We prove that for sufficiently large even n, if D is a directed graph on n vertices with minimum semi-degree at least n/2+1, then D contains an anti-directed Hamiltonian cycle. This result is sharp.

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@article{arxiv.1308.0269,
  title  = {Semi-degree threshold for anti-directed Hamiltonian cycles},
  author = {Louis DeBiasio and Theodore Molla},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.0269},
  year   = {2014}
}

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20 pages, 3 figures