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Hamiltonian chordal graphs are not cycle extendible

Combinatorics 2014-12-04 v2 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

In 1990, Hendry conjectured that every Hamiltonian chordal graph is cycle extendible; that is, the vertices of any non-Hamiltonian cycle are contained in a cycle of length one greater. We disprove this conjecture by constructing counterexamples on nn vertices for any n15n \geq 15. Furthermore, we show that there exist counterexamples where the ratio of the length of a non-extendible cycle to the total number of vertices can be made arbitrarily small. We then consider cycle extendibility in Hamiltonian chordal graphs where certain induced subgraphs are forbidden, notably PnP_n and the bull.

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@article{arxiv.1311.5863,
  title  = {Hamiltonian chordal graphs are not cycle extendible},
  author = {Manuel Lafond and Ben Seamone},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.5863},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

Some results from Section 3 were incorrect and have been removed. To appear in SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics

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