The problem is considered under which conditions a 4-connected planar or projective planar graph has a Hamiltonian cycle containing certain prescribed edges and missing certain forbidden edges. The results are applied to obtain novel lower bounds on the number of distinct Hamiltonian cycles that mus
On Hamilton cycles in certain planar graphs
β Scribed by Sanders, Daniel P.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 586 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0364-9024
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β¦ Synopsis
Let G be a 2-connected plane graph with outer cycle XG such that for every minimal vertex cut S of G with IS1 5 3, every component of G \ S contains a vertex of XG.
A sufficient condition for G to be Hamiltonian is presented. This theorem generalizes both Tutte's theorem that every 4-connected planar graph is Hamiltonian, as well as a recent theorem of Dillencourt about NST-triangulations. A linear algorithm to find a Hamilton cycle can be extracted from the proof. One corollary is that a 4-connected planar graph with the vertices of a triangle deleted is Hamiltonian.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Using graph theory, we prove Gru nbaum's conjecture: Every Venn diagram of n curves can be extended to a Venn diagram of n+1 curves by the addition of a suitable simple closed curve.
## UNIVERSIW OF WATERLOO ' The research reported here has been sponsored by the Canadian Commonwealth Association.