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Simultaneous diagonal flips in plane triangulations are investigated. It is proved that every $n$-vertex triangulation with at least six vertices has a simultaneous flip into a 4-connected triangulation, and that it can be computed in O(n)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-09-09 Prosenjit Bose , Jurek Czyzowicz , Zhicheng Gao , Pat Morin , David R. Wood

For all integers $k$ with $k\geq 2$, if $G$ is a balanced $k$-partite graph on $n\geq 3$ vertices with minimum degree at least \[…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-28 Louis DeBiasio , Nicholas Spanier

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

We propose the following conjecture extending Dirac's theorem: if $G$ is a graph with $n\ge 3$ vertices and minimum degree $\delta(G)\ge n/2$, then in every orientation of $G$ there is a Hamilton cycle with at least $\delta(G)$ edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-13 Lior Gishboliner , Michael Krivelevich , Peleg Michaeli

A conjecture by Rafla from 1988 asserts that every simple drawing of the complete graph $K_n$ admits a plane Hamiltonian cycle. It turned out that already the existence of much simpler non-crossing substructures in such drawings is hard to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Helena Bergold , Stefan Felsner , Meghana M. Reddy , Joachim Orthaber , Manfred Scheucher

We use a randomised embedding method to prove that for all \alpha>0 any sufficiently large oriented graph G with minimum in-degree and out-degree \delta^+(G),\delta^-(G)\geq (3/8+\alpha)|G| contains every possible orientation of a Hamilton…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-08-06 Luke Kelly

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

C. Thomassen in \cite{[11]} suggested (see also \cite{[2]}, J. C.Bermond, C. Thomassen, Cycles in Digraphs - A survey, J. Graph Theory 5 (1981) 1-43, Conjectures 1.6.7 and 1.6.8) the following conjectures : 1. Every 3-strongly connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-17 S. Kh. Darbinyan

An $n$-vertex graph is Hamiltonian if it contains a cycle that covers all of its vertices, and it is pancyclic if it contains cycles of all lengths from $3$ up to $n$. In 1972, Erd\H{o}s conjectured that every Hamiltonian graph with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-21 Nemanja Draganić , David Munhá Correia , Benny Sudakov

We present progress on three old conjectures about longest paths and cycles in graphs. The first pair of conjectures, due to Lov\'{a}sz from 1969 and Thomassen from 1978, respectively, states that all connected vertex-transitive graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Carla Groenland , Sean Longbrake , Raphael Steiner , Jérémie Turcotte , Liana Yepremyan

We prove that if an $n$-vertex graph with minimum degree at least $3$ contains a Hamiltonian cycle, then it contains another cycle of length $n-o(n)$; this implies, in particular, that a well-known conjecture of Sheehan from 1975 holds…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-19 António Girão , Teeradej Kittipassorn , Bhargav Narayanan

In this paper we give an approximate answer to a question of Nash-Williams from 1970: we show that for every \alpha > 0, every sufficiently large graph on n vertices with minimum degree at least (1/2 + \alpha)n contains at least n/8…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Demetres Christofides , Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus

In this paper we consider the number of Hamilton cycles in planar cubic graphs of high cyclic edge-connectivity, answering two questions raised by Chia and Thomassen ("On the number of longest and almost longest cycles in cubic graphs", Ars…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-15 Irene Pivotto , Gordon Royle

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

A Hamilton cycle in a directed graph $G$ is a cycle that passes through every vertex of $G$. A Hamiltonian decomposition of $G$ is a partition of its edge set into disjoint Hamilton cycles. In the late $60$s Kelly conjectured that every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-03 Asaf Ferber , Eoin Long , Benny Sudakov

It is shown that for any choice of four different vertices x_1,...,x_4 in a 2-block G of order p>3, there is a hamiltonian cycle in G^2 containing four different edges x_iy_i of E(G) for certain vertices y_i, i=1,2,3,4. This result is best…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Jan Ekstein , Herbert Fleischner

Hakimi and Schmeichel determined a sharp lower bound for the number of cycles of length 4 in a maximal planar graph with $n$ vertices, $n\geq 5$. It has been shown that the bound is sharp for $n = 5,12$ and $n\geq 14$ vertices. However, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-08 Ervin Győri , Addisu Paulos , Oscar Zamora

We prove that for every $\varepsilon > 0$ there exists $n_0=n_0(\varepsilon)$ such that every regular oriented graph on $n > n_0$ vertices and degree at least $(1/4 + \varepsilon)n$ has a Hamilton cycle. This establishes an approximate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-15 Allan Lo , Viresh Patel , Mehmet Akif Yıldız

In 1979, Hakimi and Schmeichel considered the problem of maximizing the number of cycles of a given length in an $n$-vertex planar graph. They precisely determined the maximum number of triangles and $4$-cycles and presented a conjecture…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Ervin Győri , Addisu Paulos , Nika Salia , Casey Tompkins , Oscar Zamora

A Hamiltonian cycle of a graph is a closed path which visits each of the vertices once and only once. In this article, Hamiltonian cycles on planar random lattices are considered. The generating function for the number of Hamiltonian cycles…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Saburo Higuchi