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A look at cycles containing specified elements of a graph
AbstractThis article is intended as a brief survey of problems and results dealing with cycles containing specified elements of a graph. It is hoped that this will help researchers in the area to identify problems and areas of concentration
On short cycles through prescribed vertices of a polyhedral graph
Guaranteed upper bounds on the length of a shortest cycle through k ≤ 5 prescribed vertices of a polyhedral graph or plane triangulation are proved
Cycles containing all vertices of maximum degree
For a graph G and an integer k, denote by Vk the set {v ε V(G) | d(v) ≥ k}. Veldman proved that if G is a 2-connected graph of order n with n ≤ 3k - 2 and |Vk| ≤ k, then G has a cycle containing all vertices of Vk. It is shown that the upper bound k on |Vk| is close to best possible in general. For the special case k = δ(G), it is conjectured that the condition |Vk| ≤ k can be omitted. Using a variation of Woodall's Hopping Lemma, the conjecture is proved under the additional condition that n ≤ 2δ(G) + δ(G) + 1. This result is an almost-generalization of Jackson's Theorem that every 2-connected k-regular graph of order n with n ≤ 3k is hamiltonian. An alternative proof of an extension of Jackson's Theorem is also presented
Hamilton cycles in almost distance-hereditary graphs
Let be a graph on vertices. A graph is almost
distance-hereditary if each connected induced subgraph of has the
property for any pair of vertices .
A graph is called 1-heavy (2-heavy) if at least one (two) of the end
vertices of each induced subgraph of isomorphic to (a claw) has
(have) degree at least , and called claw-heavy if each claw of has a
pair of end vertices with degree sum at least . Thus every 2-heavy graph is
claw-heavy. In this paper we prove the following two results: (1) Every
2-connected, claw-heavy and almost distance-hereditary graph is Hamiltonian.
(2) Every 3-connected, 1-heavy and almost distance-hereditary graph is
Hamiltonian. In particular, the first result improves a previous theorem of
Feng and Guo. Both results are sharp in some sense.Comment: 14 pages; 1 figure; a new theorem is adde