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We show that every sufficiently large oriented graph with minimum in- and outdegree at least (3n-4)/8 contains a Hamilton cycle. This is best possible and solves a problem of Thomassen from 1979.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Peter Keevash , Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus

The paper is concerned with directed versions of Posa's theorem and Chvatal's theorem on Hamilton cycles in graphs. We show that for each a>0, every digraph G of sufficiently large order n whose outdegree and indegree sequences d_1^+ \leq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-02-23 Demetres Christofides , Peter Keevash , Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus

In this paper, we prove a tight minimum degree condition in general graphs for the existence of paths between two given endpoints, whose lengths form a long arithmetic progression with common difference one or two. This allows us to obtain…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Jun Gao , Qingyi Huo , Chun-Hung Liu , Jie Ma

A bond in a graph is a minimal nonempty edge-cut. A connected graph $G$ is dual Hamiltonian if the vertex set can be partitioned into two subsets $X$ and $Y$ such that the subgraphs induced by $X$ and $Y$ are both trees. There is much…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Emily Ren

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. This conjecture has inspired extensive research and has been verified for several special classes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Songling Shan

Let $G$ be a graph on $n\geq 3$ vertices, claw the bipartite graph $K_{1,3}$, and $Z_i$ the graph obtained from a triangle by attaching a path of length $i$ to its one vertex. $G$ is called 1-heavy if at least one end vertex of each induced…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-01-07 Bo Ning , Bing Chen , Shenggui Zhang

In 1980, Jackson proved that every 2-connected $k$-regular graph with at most $3k$ vertices is Hamiltonian. This result has been extended in several papers. In this note, we determine the minimum number of vertices in a connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-06 Daniel W. Cranston , Suil O

Let $G$ be a graph on $n\geq 3$ vertices. A graph $G$ is almost distance-hereditary if each connected induced subgraph $H$ of $G$ has the property $d_{H}(x,y)\leq d_{G}(x,y)+1$ for any pair of vertices $x,y\in V(H)$. A graph $G$ is called…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-13 Bing Chen , Bo Ning

We show that for all $k\geq 4$, $\varepsilon >0$, and $n$ sufficiently large, every $k$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices in which each set of $k-3$ vertices is contained in at least $(5/8 + \varepsilon) \binom{n}{3}$ edges contains a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Richard Lang , Mathias Schacht , Jan Volec

A conjecture of Thomassen from 1982 states that for every k there is an f(k) so that every strongly f(k)-connected tournament contains k edge-disjoint Hamilton cycles. A classical theorem of Camion, that every strongly connected tournament…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Daniela Kühn , John Lapinskas , Deryk Osthus , Viresh Patel

We prove that 3-connected triangulations with at most one separating triangle are hamiltonian-connected. In order to show bounds on the strongest form of this theorem, we proved that for any $s\geq4$ there are 3-connected triangulation with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-05 Nico Van Cleemput

Tutte showed that $4$-connected planar graphs are Hamiltonian, but it is well known that $3$-connected planar graphs need not be Hamiltonian. We show that $K_{2,5}$-minor-free $3$-connected planar graphs are Hamiltonian. This does not…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-21 M. N. Ellingham , Emily A. Marshall , Kenta Ozeki , Shoichi Tsuchiya

Whitney proved in 1931 that 4-connected planar triangulations are Hamiltonian. Hakimi, Schmeichel, and Thomassen conjectured in 1979 that if $G$ is a 4-connected planar triangulation with $n$ vertices then $G$ contains at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-14 Xiaonan Liu , Xingxing Yu

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

Dirac's classical theorem asserts that, for $n \ge 3$, any $n$-vertex graph with minimum degree at least $n/2$ is Hamiltonian. Furthermore, if we additionally assume that such graphs are regular, then, by the breakthrough work of Csaba,…

Bermond and Thomassen conjectured that every digraph with minimum outdegree at least $2k-1$ contains $k$ vertex disjoint cycles. So far the conjecture was verified for $k\le 3$. Here we generalise the question asking for all outdegree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-18 Mikołaj Lewandowski , Joanna Polcyn , Christian Reiher

Hasunuma [J. Graph Theory 102 (2023) 423-435] conjectured that for any tree $T$ of order $m$, every $k$-connected (or $k$-edge-connected) graph $G$ with minimum degree at least $k+m-1$ contains a tree $T'\cong T$ such that $G-E(T')$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-08 Qing Yang , Yingzhi Tian

In 1974, Goodman and Hedetniemi proved that every 2-connected $(K_{1,3},K_{1,3}+e)$-free graph is hamiltonian. This result gave rise many other hamiltonicity conditions for various pairs and triples of forbidden connected subgraphs under…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-07-25 Zh. G. Nikoghosyan

In 2003, Bohman, Frieze, and Martin initiated the study of randomly perturbed graphs and digraphs. For digraphs, they showed that for every $\alpha>0$, there exists a constant $C$ such that for every $n$-vertex digraph of minimum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Igor Araujo , József Balogh , Robert A. Krueger , Simón Piga , Andrew Treglown

An arc of a graph is an oriented edge and a 3-arc is a 4-tuple $(v,u,x,y)$ of vertices such that both $(v,u,x)$ and $(u,x,y)$ are paths of length two. The 3-arc graph of a graph $G$ is defined to have vertices the arcs of $G$ such that two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-11-14 Guangjun Xu , Sanming Zhou