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The deep interconnection between linear algebra and graph theory allows one to interpret classical matrix invariants through combinatorial structures. To each square matrix A over a commutative ring K, one can associate a weighted directed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Sudip Bera

We provide four equivalent combinatorial conditions for a simple assembly graph (rigid vertex graph where all vertices are of degree 1 or 4) to have the largest number of Hamiltonian sets of polygonal paths relative its size. These…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-10 A. Guterman , N. Jonoska , E. Kreines , A. Maksaev , N. Ostroukhova

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

For a connected graph, the Hamiltonian cycle (path) is a simple cycle (path) that spans all the vertices in the graph. It is known from \cite{muller,garey} that HAMILTONIAN CYCLE (PATH) are NP-complete in general graphs and chordal…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-09-18 P. Kowsika , V. Divya , N. Sadagopan

An upper bound for the number of Hamiltonian cycles of symmetric diagraphs is established first in this paper, which is tighter than the famous Minc's bound and the Br$\acute{e}$gman's bound. A transformation on graphs is proposed, so that…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-12-06 Jinshan Zhang

We construct a combinatorial function F which computes the number of oriented Hamiltonian paths of any given type, in a transitive tournament. We also study many properties of F that arise, and reach some observations.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Zeina Ghazo Hanna , Amine El Sahili

We give a shorter proof of the recurrence relation for the domination polynomial $\gamma (P_{n},t)$ and for the number $\gamma _{k}(P_{n})$ of dominating $k$-sets of the path with $n$ vertices. For every positive integers $n$ and $k,$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-07 Jorge L. Arocha , Bernardo Llano

In this paper we extend counting of traversing Hamiltonian cycles from 2-tiled graphs to generalized tiled graphs. We further show that, for a fixed finite set of tiles, counting traversing Hamiltonian cycles can be done in linear time with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-28 Alen Vegi Kalamar

In this work, we define an orthogonal graph on the set of equivalence classes of $(2\nu + \delta)-$tuples over $\mathbb{Z}_{2^n}$ where $n$ and $\nu$ are positive integers and $\delta = 0, 1$ or $2$. We classify our graph if it is strongly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-07 Songpon Sriwongsa

A \emph{simple} $s,t$ path $P$ in a rectangular grid graph $\mathbb{G}$ is a Hamiltonian path from the top-left corner $s$ to the bottom-right corner $t$ such that each \emph{internal} subpath of $P$ with both endpoints $a$ and $b$ on the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Rahnuma Islam Nishat , Venkatesh Srinivasan , Sue Whitesides

We consider the problem of finding a Hamiltonian path or cycle with precedence constraints in the form of a partial order on the vertex set. We study the complexity for graph width parameters for which the ordinary problems…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Jesse Beisegel , Katharina Klost , Kristin Knorr , Fabienne Ratajczak , Robert Scheffler

Kronk introduced the $l$-path hamiltonianicity of graphs in 1969. A graph is $l$-path Hamiltonian if every path of length not exceeding $l$ is contained in a Hamiltonian cycle. We have shown that if $P=uvz$ is a 2-path of a 2-connected,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-10 Xia Li , Weihua Yang , Bo Zhang , Shuang Zhao

Many polynomial invariants are defined on graphs for encoding the combinatorial information and researching them algebraically. In this paper, we introduce the cycle polynomial and the path polynomial of directed graphs for counting cycles…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Xiangying Chen

We systematically investigate the complexity of counting subgraph patterns modulo fixed integers. For example, it is known that the parity of the number of $k$-matchings can be determined in polynomial time by a simple reduction to the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Radu Curticapean , Holger Dell , Thore Husfeldt

Let $G$ be a strongly connected directed graph of order $p\geq 3$. In this paper, we show that if $d(x)+d(y)\geq 2p-2$ (respectively, $d(x)+d(y)\geq 2p-1$) for every pair of non-adjacent vertices $x, y$, then $G$ contains a Hamiltonian path…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Samvel Kh. Darbinyan

A mixed graph is obtained from a graph by orienting some of its edges. The Hermitian adjacency matrix of a mixed graph with the vertex set $ \{v_{1}, \ldots , v_{n}\} $, is the matrix $ H=[h_{ij}]_{n \times n} $, where $ h_{ij}=-h_{ji}=i $…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-12 S. Akbari , A. Ghafari , M. Nahvi , M. A. Nematollahi

It is known that for every spatial complete graph on $n\ge 7$ vertices, the summation of the second coefficients of the Conway polynomials over the Hamiltonian knots is congruent to $r_{n}$ modulo $(n-5)!$, where $r_{n} = (n-5)!/2$ if…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Ryo Nikkuni

The k-th power of a n-vertex graph X is the iterated cartesian product of X with itself. The k-th symmetric power of X is the quotient graph of certain subgraph of its k-th power by the natural action of the symmetric group. It is natural…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2008-01-16 Alfredo Alzaga , Rodrigo Iglesias , Ricardo Pignol

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

The Caccetta-Haggkvist conjecture states that if G is a finite directed graph with at least n/k edges going out of each vertex, then G contains a directed cycle of length at most k. Hamidoune used methods and results from additive number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-30 Melvyn B. Nathanson