We show that, in a claw-free graph, Hamilton-connectedness is preserved under the operation of local completion performed at a vertex with 2-connected neighborhood. This result proves a conjecture by Bollobás et al.
On stability of the hamiltonian index under contractions and closures
✍ Scribed by Liming Xiong; Zdeněk Ryjáček; Hajo Broersma
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 113 KB
- Volume
- 49
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0364-9024
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
The hamiltonian index of a graph G is the smallest integer k such that the k‐th iterated line graph of G is hamiltonian. We first show that, with one exceptional case, adding an edge to a graph cannot increase its hamiltonian index. We use this result to prove that neither the contraction of an A~G~(F)‐contractible subgraph F of a graph G nor the closure operation performed on G (if G is claw‐free) affects the value of the hamiltonian index of a graph G. AMS Subject Classification (2000): 05C45, 05C35. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Graph Theory
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