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In this paper, we investigate the well-studied Hamiltonian cycle problem (HCYCLE), and present an interesting dichotomy result on split graphs. T. Akiyama et al. (1980) have shown that HCYCLE is NP-complete in planar bipartite graphs with…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-03-09 P. Renjith , N. Sadagopan

A bipartite graph is chordal bipartite if every cycle of length at least six has a chord in it. M$\ddot{\rm u}$ller \cite {muller1996Hamiltonian} has shown that the Hamiltonian cycle problem is NP-complete on chordal bipartite graphs by…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-07-13 S. Aadhavan , R. Mahendra Kumar , P. Renjith , N. Sadagopan

After long-term efforts, the Hamilton path (cycle) problem for connected vertex-transitive graphs of order $pq$ (where $p$ and $q$ are primes) was finally resolved in 2021, see [10]. Fifteen years ago, mathematicians began addressing this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Huye Chen , Jingjian Li , Hao Yu

The decision problems of the existence of a Hamiltonian cycle or of a Hamiltonian path in a given graph, and of the existence of a truth assignment satisfying a given Boolean formula $C$, are well-known {\it NP}-complete problems. Here we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Olivier Hudry , Antoine Lobstein

In light of Lov\'{a}sz's longstanding question on the existence of Hamilton paths in vertex-transitive graphs, this paper considers a natural variant: what if vertex-transitivity is relaxed, yet a high degree of symmetry--specifically…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Shaofei Du , Kai Yuan

A non-planar graph is almost-planar if either deleting or contracting any edge makes it planar. A graph with $n$ vertices is pancyclic if it contains a cycle of every length from $3$ to $n$, and it is Hamiltonian if it contains a cycle of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Santiago T. Adams , S. R. Kingan

The Hamiltonian cycle (HC) problem in graph theory is a well-known NP-complete problem. We present an approach in terms of $\mathbb{Z}_2$ lattice gauge theory (LGT) defined on the lattice with the graph as its dual. When the coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-18 Xiaopeng Cui , Yu Shi

In 1973, Chv\'atal conjectured that there exists a constant $t_0$ such that every $t_0$-tough graph on at least three vertices is Hamiltonian. While this conjecture is still open, work has been done to confirm it for several graph classes,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Songling Shan , Arthur Tanyel

Many hard graph problems, such as Hamiltonian Cycle, become FPT when parameterized by treewidth, a parameter that is bounded only on sparse graphs. When parameterized by the more general parameter clique-width, Hamiltonian Cycle becomes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-24 Sigve Hortemo Sæther

Proximity graphs have been studied for several decades, motivated by applications in computational geometry, geography, data mining, and many other fields. However, the computational complexity of classic graph problems on proximity graphs…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Pascal Kunz , Till Fluschnik , Rolf Niedermeier , Malte Renken

Counting the number of Hamiltonian cycles that are contained in a geometric graph is {\bf \#P}-complete even if the graph is known to be planar \cite{lot:refer}. A relaxation for problems in plane geometric graphs is to allow the geometric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-17 Hazim Michman Trao

Although, the Hamiltonicity of solid grid graphs are polynomial-time decidable, the complexity of the longest cycle problem in these graphs is still open. In this paper, by presenting a linear-time constant-factor approximation algorithm,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-26 Asghar Asgharian Sardroud , Alireza Bagheri

We study the computational complexity of Feedback Vertex Set on subclasses of Hamiltonian graphs. In particular, we consider Hamiltonian graphs that are regular or are planar and regular. Moreover, we study the less known class of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Dario Cavallaro , Till Fluschnik

A path (cycle) in a $2$-edge-colored multigraph is alternating if no two consecutive edges have the same color. The problem of determining the existence of alternating Hamiltonian paths and cycles in $2$-edge-colored multigraphs is an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Alejandro Contreras-Balbuena , Hortensia Galeana-Sánchez , Ilan A. Goldfeder

A graph is Hamiltonian if it contains a cycle passing through every vertex. One of the cornerstone results in the theory of random graphs asserts that for edge probability $p \gg \frac{\log n}{n}$, the random graph $G(n,p)$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-18 Michael Krivelevich , Choongbum Lee , Benny Sudakov

In this paper, we investigate Hamiltonian path problem in the context of split graphs, and produce a dichotomy result on the complexity of the problem. Our main result is a deep investigation of the structure of $K_{1,4}$-free split graphs…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-11-28 P. Renjith , N. Sadagopan

Let $G$ be an edge-colored graph, a walk in $G$ is said to be a properly colored walk iff each pair of consecutive edges have different colors, including the first and the last edges in case that the walk be closed. Let $H$ be a graph…

In this paper, we study the parameterized complexity and inapproximability of the {\sc Induced Matching} problem in hamiltonian bipartite graphs. We show that, given a hamiltonian cycle in a hamiltonian bipartite graph, the problem is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-12-08 Yinglei Song

We study homomorphism problems of signed graphs. A signed graph is an undirected graph where each edge is given a sign, positive or negative. An important concept for signed graphs is the operation of switching at a vertex, which is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-08 François Dross , Florent Foucaud , Valia Mitsou , Pascal Ochem , Théo Pierron

We investigate the computational complexity of finding temporally disjoint paths or walks in temporal graphs. There, the edge set changes over discrete time steps and a temporal path (resp. walk) uses edges that appear at monotonically…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Nina Klobas , George B. Mertzios , Hendrik Molter , Rolf Niedermeier , Philipp Zschoche