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Sufficient conditions for Hamiltonian cycles in bipartite digraphs

Combinatorics 2016-05-02 v1

Abstract

We prove two sharp sufficient conditions for hamiltonian cycles in balanced bipartite directed graph. Let DD be a strongly connected balanced bipartite directed graph of order 2a2a. Let x,yx,y be distinct vertices in DD. {x,y}\{x,y\} dominates a vertex zz if xzx\rightarrow z and yzy\rightarrow z; in this case, we call the pair {x,y}\{x,y\} dominating. (i) {\it If a4a\geq 4 and max{d(x),d(y)}2a1max \{d(x), d(y)\}\geq 2a-1 for every dominating pair of vertices {x,y}\{x,y\}, then either DD is hamiltonian or DD is isomorphic to one exceptional digraph of order eight.} (ii) {\it If a5a\geq 5 and d(x)+d(y)4a3d(x)+d(y)\geq 4a-3 for every dominating pair of vertices {x,y}\{x,y\}, then DD is hamiltonian.} The first result improves a theorem of R. Wang (arXiv:1506.07949 [math.CO]), the second result, in particular, establishes a conjecture due to Bang-Jensen, Gutin and Li (J. Graph Theory , 22(2), 1996) for strongly connected balanced bipartite digraphs of order at least ten.

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@article{arxiv.1604.08733,
  title  = {Sufficient conditions for Hamiltonian cycles in bipartite digraphs},
  author = {Samvel Kh. Darbinyan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.08733},
  year   = {2016}
}

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