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The classical Dirac theorem asserts that every graph $G$ on $n$ vertices with minimum degree $\delta(G) \ge \lceil n/2 \rceil$ is Hamiltonian. The lower bound of $\lceil n/2 \rceil$ on the minimum degree of a graph is tight. In this paper,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Yasemin Büyükçolak , Didem Gözüpek , Sibel Özkan , Mordechai Shalom

In this paper we prove a sufficient condition for the existence of a Hamilton cycle, which is applicable to a wide variety of graphs, including relatively sparse graphs. In contrast to previous criteria, ours is based on only two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dan Hefetz , Michael Krivelevich , Tibor Szabo

For integers $k\geq 1$ and $n\geq 2k+1$, the Schrijver graph $S(n,k)$ has as vertices all $k$-element subsets of $[n]:=\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$ that contain no two cyclically adjacent elements, and an edge between any two disjoint sets. More…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-03 Torsten Mütze , Namrata

We revisit results obtained in [F. Harary, U. Peled, Hamiltonian threshold graphs, Discrete Appl.~Math., 16 (1987), 11--15], where several necessary and necessary and sufficient conditions for a connected threshold graph to be Hamiltonian…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-17 Milica Andelic , Tamara Koledin , Zoran Stanic

Strongly regular graphs are highly symmetrical and can be described fully with just a few parameters, yet the existence of many of them is still under the question. In this paper, we continue the study of the famuly of strongly regular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Reimbay Reimbayev

We prove that if $G$ is a $k$-partite graph on $n$ vertices in which all of the parts have order at most $n/r$ and every vertex is adjacent to at least a $1-1/r+o(1)$ proportion of the vertices in every other part, then $G$ contains the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-04 Louis DeBiasio , Ryan Martin , Theodore Molla

Every graph of size $q$ (the number of edges) and minimum degree $\delta$ is hamiltonian if $q\le\delta^2+\delta-1$. The result is sharp.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-13 Zh. G. Nikoghosyan

We first fully implement, in Maple, the ingenious method of Robert Stoyan and Volker Strehl from 1995 to automatically derive generating functions for the number of Hamiltonian cycles in an m by n grid graph ,for a fixed width m, but…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Pablo Blanco , Doron Zeilberger

A graph is sub-unicyclic if it contains at most one cycle. We also say that a graph $G$ is $k$-apex sub-unicyclic if it can become sub-unicyclic by removing $k$ of its vertices. We identify 29 graphs that are the minor-obstructions of the…

We establish a relation between two uniform models of random $k$-graphs (for constant $k \ge 3$) on $n$ labeled vertices: $H(n,m)$, the random $k$-graph with exactly $m$ edges, and $H(n,d)$, the random $d$-regular $k$-graph. By extending to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Andrzej Dudek , Alan Frieze , Andrzej Ruciński , Matas Šileikis

The semi-random graph process is a single player game in which the player is initially presented an empty graph on $n$ vertices. In each round, a vertex $u$ is presented to the player independently and uniformly at random. The player then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Pu Gao , Calum MacRury , Pawel Pralat

A conjecture of Carsten Thomassen states that every 4-connected line graph is hamiltonian. It is known that the conjecture is true for 7-connected line graphs. We improve this by showing that any 5-connected line graph of minimum degree at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-04-01 Tomáš Kaiser , Petr Vrána

We show that every 3-uniform hypergraph with $n$ vertices and minimum vertex degree at least $(5/9+o(1))\binom{n}2$ contains a tight Hamiltonian cycle. Known lower bound constructions show that this degree condition is asymptotically…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-13 Christian Reiher , Vojtěch Rödl , Andrzej Ruciński , Mathias Schacht , Endre Szemerédi

Determining if an input undirected graph is Hamiltonian, i.e., if it has a cycle that visits every vertex exactly once, is one of the most famous NP-complete problems. We consider the following generalization of Hamiltonian cycles: for a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Antoine Amarilli , Arthur Lombardo , Mikaël Monet

Although there are very algorithms for embedding graphs on unbounded grids, only few results on embedding or drawing graphs on restricted grids has been published. In this work, we consider the problem of embedding paths and cycles on grid…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-10-10 Asghar Asgharian Sardroud , Alireza Bagheri

Consider the random subgraph process on a base graph $G$ with $n$ vertices: we generate a sequence $\{G_t\}_{t=0}^{|E(G)|}$ by taking a uniformly random ordering of the edges of $G$ and then adding these edges one by one to the empty graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Yaobin Chen , Yu Chen , Seonghyuk Im , Yiting Wang

We show that every $3$-uniform hypergraph $H=(V,E)$ with $|V(H)|=n$ and minimum pair degree at least $(4/5+o(1))n$ contains a squared Hamiltonian cycle. This may be regarded as a first step towards a hypergraph version of the P\'osa-Seymour…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-08 Wiebke Bedenknecht , Christian Reiher

We prove that for all $k\geq 4$ and $1\leq\ell<k/2$, every $k$-uniform hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$ on $n$ vertices with $\delta_{k-2}(\mathcal{H})\geq\left(\frac{4(k-\ell)-1}{4(k-\ell)^2}+o(1)\right)\binom{n}{2}$ contains a Hamiltonian…

Finding general conditions which ensure that a graph is Hamiltonian is a central topic in graph theory. An old and well known conjecture in the area states that any $d$-regular $n$-vertex graph $G$ whose second largest eigenvalue in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-10 Stefan Glock , David Munhá Correia , Benny Sudakov

A famous result by R\"odl, Ruci\'nski, and Szemer\'edi guarantees a (tight) Hamilton cycle in $k$-uniform hypergraphs $H$ on $n$ vertices with minimum $(k-1)$-degree $\delta_{k-1}(H)\geq (1/2+o(1))n$, thereby extending Dirac's result from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-14 Felix Joos , Marcus Kühn , Bjarne Schülke