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A graph is hypohamiltonian if it is not Hamiltonian, but the deletion of any single vertex gives a Hamiltonian graph. Until now, the smallest known planar hypohamiltonian graph had 42 vertices, a result due to Araya and Wiener. That result…

The disproved Nash Williams conjecture states that every 4-regular 4-connected graph has a hamiltonian cycle. We show that a modification of this conjecture is equivalent to the Dominating Cycle Conjecture.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-12 Arthur Hoffmann-Ostenhof

We show that every edge in a 2-edge-connected planar cubic graph is either contained in a 2-edge-cut or is a chord of some cycle that is contained in a 2-factor of the graph. As a consequence, we show that every edge in a cyclically…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Ajit Diwan

For every $n \geq 5$, we show that the Kneser graph of triangulations of a convex $n$-gon contains a Hamiltonian cycle.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Anton Molnar , Cosmin Pohoata , Michael Zheng

The Hamiltonian number of a connected graph is the minimum of the lengths of the closed, spanning walks in the graph. In 1968, Grinberg published a necessary condition for the existence of a Hamiltonian cycle in a planar graph, formulated…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-28 Thomas M. Lewis

A supergrid graph is a finite vertex-induced subgraph of the infinite graph whose vertex set consists of all points of the plane with integer coordinates and in which two vertices are adjacent if the difference of their x or y coordinates…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Ruo-Wei Hung , Fatemeh Keshavarz-Kohjerdi

It is proven that for any integer $g \ge 0$ and $k \in \{ 0, \ldots, 10 \}$, there exist infinitely many 5-regular graphs of genus $g$ containing a 1-factorisation with exactly $k$ pairs of 1-factors that are perfect, i.e. form a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-26 Nico Van Cleemput , Carol T. Zamfirescu

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

We show that under certain conditions the square of the graph obtained by identifying a vertex in two graphs with hamiltonian square is also hamiltonian. Using this result, we prove necessary and sufficient conditions for hamiltonicity of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-03-22 Jan Ekstein

A Hamiltonian path (a Hamiltonian cycle) in a graph is a path (a cycle, respectively) that traverses all of its vertices. The problems of deciding their existence in an input graph are well-known to be NP-complete, in fact, they belong to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Nikola Jedličková , Jan Kratochvíl

Every planar graph has a 4-page book embedding and this bound is tight. We show that every 1-planar graph, which is a graph that admits a drawing with at most one crossing per edge, has a 10-page book embedding. In addition, four pages are…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Franz J. Brandenburg

A graph $G$ is Hamiltonian-connected if there exists a Hamiltonian path between any two vertices of $G$. It is known that if $G$ is 2-connected then the graph $G^2$ is Hamiltonian-connected. In this paper we prove that the square of every…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Ashok Kumar Das , Indrajit Paul

A graph $ G $ is called $ t $-tough if $ \left|S\right|\geq t\cdot w\left(G-S\right)$ for every cutset $ S $ of $G$. Chv\'atal conjectured that there exists a constant $ t_{0} $ such that every $ t_{0} $-tough graph has a hamiltonian cycle.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Hui Ma , Lili Hao , Weihua Yang

Chen et al. proved that every 18-tough chordal graph has a Hamilton cycle [Networks 31 (1998), 29-38]. Improving upon their bound, we show that every 10-tough chordal graph is Hamiltonian (in fact, Hamilton-connected). We use Aharoni and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Adam Kabela , Tomáš Kaiser

A graph $G$ is called a $2K_2$-free graph if it does not contain $2K_2$ as an induced subgraph. In 2014, Broersma, Patel and Pyatkin showed that every 25-tough $2K_2$-free graph on at least three vertices is Hamiltonian. Recently, Shan…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-06 Katsuhiro Ota , Masahiro Sanka

We prove that every 2-connected, cubic, planar graph with faces of size at most 6 is Hamiltonian, and show that the 6-face condition is tight. Our results push the connectivity condition of the Barnette-Goodey conjecture to the weakest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Sihong Shao , Yuxuan Wu

We consider the existence of patterned Hamilton cycles in randomly colored random graphs. Given a string $\Pi$ over a set of colors $\{1,2,\ldots,r\}$, we say that a Hamilton cycle is $\Pi$-colored if the pattern repeats at intervals of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Michael Anastos , Alan Frieze

Let $\mathcal{G}(k)$ denote the set of connected $k$-regular graphs $G$, $k\geq2$, where the number of vertices at distance 2 from any vertex in $G$ does not exceed $k$. Asratian (2006) showed (using other terminology) that a graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-16 Armen S. Asratian , Jonas B. Granholm

A cycle $C$ of length $k$ in graph $G$ is extendable if there is another cycle $C'$ in $G$ with $V(C) \subset V(C')$ and length $k+1$. A graph is cycle extendable if every non-Hamiltonian cycle is extendable. In 1990 Hendry conjectured that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Deborah Arangno , David E. Brown

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