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A well-known result due to Chvat\'al and Erd\H{o}s (1972) asserts that, if a graph $G$ satisfies $\kappa(G) \ge \alpha(G)$, where $\kappa(G)$ is the vertex-connectivity of $G$, then $G$ has a Hamilton cycle. We prove a similar result…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-25 Shoham Letzter

A graph $G$ is pseudo 2--factor isomorphic if the parity of the number of cycles in a 2--factor is the same for all 2--factors of $G$. In \cite{ADJLS} we proved that pseudo 2--factor isomorphic $k$--regular bipartite graphs exist only for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-13 M. Abreu , D. Labbate , J. Sheehan

Let $k\geq 2$. We show that, for a sufficiently small $\varepsilon>0$, any sufficiently large $n$-vertex Hamiltonian graph of minimum degree at least $n^{1-\varepsilon}$ contains a $2$-factor consisting of exactly $k$ cycles. This is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Alberto Espuny Díaz , António Girão , Bertille Granet , Gal Kronenberg

A graph $G$ is $l$-path Hamiltonian if every path of length not exceeding $l$ is contained in a Hamiltonian cycle. It is well known that a 2-connected, $k$-regular graph $G$ on at most $3k-1$ vertices is edge-Hamiltonian if for every edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-10 Xia Li , Weihua Yang

We show that if G is a connected bridgeless cubic graph whose every 2-factor is comprised of cycles of length five then G is the Petersen graph.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-01-25 Matt DeVos , Vahan V. Mkrtchyan , Samvel S. Petrosyan

A theorem due to Seyffarth states that every planar $4$-connected $n$-vertex graph has a cycle double cover (CDC) containing at most $n-1$ cycles (a "small" CDC). We extend this theorem by proving that, in fact, such a graph must contain…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Jorik Jooken , Ben Seamone , Carol T. Zamfirescu

We approach the cycle double cover conjecture by looking for a circular 2-cell embedding of cubic graphs on an arbitrary surface. It is easy to see that if such an embedding exists, we can get to it from an arbitrary starting 2-cell…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Babak Ghanbari , Robert Šámal

The Hamiltonian cycle polynomial can be evaluated to count the number of Hamiltonian cycles in a graph. It can also be viewed as a list of all spanning cycles of length $n$. We adopt the latter perspective and present a pair of original…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Hamilton Sawczuk , Edinah Gnang

We give two equivalent formulations of a conjecture [2,4] on the number of arc-disjoint Hamiltonian cycles in De Bruijn graphs.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-12-31 Zoltán Kása

In this note, we prove that every 4-connected optimal 2-planar graph is Hamiltonian-connected. Furthermore, we show that the 4-connectedness condition is sharp by constructing infinitely many 3-connected optimal 2-planar graphs that are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Licheng Zhang , Yuanqiu Huang , Zhangdong Ouyang

We classify trivalent vertex-transitive graphs whose edge sets have a partition into a 2-factor composed of two cycles and a 1-factor that is invariant under the action of the automorphism group.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Brian Alspach , Ted Dobson , Afsaneh Khodadadpour , Primoz Šparl

The well-known twenty types of 2-uniform tilings of the plane give rise infinitely many doubly semi-equivelar maps on the torus. In this article, we show that every such doubly semi-equivelar map on the torus contains a Hamiltonian cycle.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Yogendra Singh , Anand Kumar Tiwari , Seema Kushwaha

We study the dual graph polynomials and the case when a Feynman graph has no triangles but has a 4-face. This leads to the proof of the duality-admissibility of all graphs up to 18 loops. As a consequence, the $c_2$ invariant is the same…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-17 Dmitry Doryn

A graph is pseudo 2-factor isomorphic if all of its 2-factors have the same parity of number of cycles. Abreu et al. [J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B. 98 (2008) 432--442] conjectured that $K_{3,3}$, the Heawood graph and the Pappus graph are the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Marien Abreu , Jan Goedgebeur , Jorik Jooken , Federico Romaniello , Tibo Van den Eede

A bipartite graph is {\em pseudo 2--factor isomorphic} if all its 2--factors have the same parity of number of circuits. In \cite{ADJLS} we proved that the only essentially 4--edge-connected pseudo 2--factor isomorphic cubic bipartite graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-13 M. Abreu , D. Labbate , J. Sheehan

The prism over a graph $G$ is the Cartesian product of $G$ with the complete graph $K_2$. A graph $G$ is hamiltonian if there exists a spanning cycle in $G$, and $G$ is prism-hamiltonian if the prism over $G$ is hamiltonian. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Simon Spacapan

A regular bipartite tournament is an orientation of a complete balanced bipartite graph $K_{2n,2n}$ where every vertex has its in- and outdegree both equal to $n$. In 1981, Jackson conjectured that any regular bipartite tournament can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-08 Bertille Granet

Back in the Eighties, Heath showed that every 3-planar graph is subhamiltonian and asked whether this result can be extended to a class of graphs of degree greater than three. In this paper we affirmatively answer this question for the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-01-06 Michael A. Bekos , Martin Gronemann , Chrysanthi N. Raftopoulou

Let $P$ be a set of $n\geq 2$ points in general position in $R^2$. The edge disjointness graph $D(P)$ of $P$ is the graph whose vertices are all the closed straight line segments with endpoints in $P$, two of which are adjacent in $D(P)$ if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-07 J. Leaños , Christophe Ndjatchi , L. M. Ríos-Castro

For two integers $n\geq 3$ and $2\leq p\leq n$, we denote $D(n,p)$ the digraph obtained from a directed $n$-cycle by changing the orientations of $p-1$ consecutive arcs. In this paper, we show that a family of $k$-regular $(k\geq 3)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-21 Bo Zhang , Weihua Yang