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Hobbled rook tour – Hamiltonian cycle on square grid

Consider a square grid of even side length ($2n \times 2n$). It is easy to see that there must exist a Hamiltonian cycle on the corresponding grid graph. Such a cycle is called balanced if the number ...
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Hamilton cycles in random graphs with just enough connectivity

What is the asymptotic probability that $G$ has a Hamilton cycle if $G$ is a random $n$ vertex $\frac{4}{3}n$ edge graph, with minimum degree 2 and without degree 2 vertices at distance 1 or 2 to each ...
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Cage graphs and even cycles

Let $G$ be a $(\nu,g)$-cage graph of degree $\nu$ with girth $g$ and $n=n(\nu,g)$ vertices. Based on the known examples, I am wondering if the following can be proved/disproved: Is it true that ...
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Do uniquely Hamiltonian graphs have cycles of a sufficiently long length?

Let $C$ be a Hamiltonian cycle of a graph $G$. Call an edge $e$ of $G$ a chord if $e\not\in C$. Let each edge of $C$ be weighted $1$ and each chord be weighted $2$. The weight of a path or cycle of ...
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How to construct 4-regular graphs with few Hamiltonian decompositions?

A Hamiltonian decomposition of a finite simple graph is a partition of its edge set so that each partition class forms a Hamiltonian cycle. This is only possible if the graph is $2k$-regular. ...
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Graph gadget related to uniquely hamiltionian regular graphs

A graph is uniquely hamiltonian if it has exactly one hamiltonian cycle. According to a conjecture there are no $r$-regular uniquely hamiltonian graphs for $r > 2$ and of special interest is the ...
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is a 4-connected planar graph still Hamiltonian after removing an edge?

We know that 4-connected planar graphs are Hamiltonian(by the known Tutte Theorem). Additionally, Thomas and Yu [1] proved that removing two vertices from a 4-connected planar graph still preserves ...
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How many 20-vertex 2-connected 5-regular non-Hamiltonian graphs are there?

As for the question in title, I attempted to use nauty to obtain them, but it has been running on my computer for nearly three days without producing any results. <...
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Is there a permutation $\pi\in S_n$ with $\sum\limits_{0<k<n}\frac1{\pi(k)^2-\pi(k+1)^2}=0$ for each $n>7$?

Let $S_n$ be the symmetric group of all permutations of $\{1,\ldots,n\}$. QUESTION: Is it true that for each $n=8,9,\ldots$ we have $$\sum_{0<k<n}\frac1{\pi(k)^2-\pi(k+1)^2}=0\tag{$*$}$$ for ...
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Halin Graphs with Highest Number of Hamilton Cycles

Halin graphs contain a Hamilton cycle and have the interesting property, that, also in the case of arbitrary real edge weights, it is possible to report one of the shortest contained Hamilton cycles ...
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When is an induced subgraph of a Johnson graph hamilton-connected?

The Johnson graph $J(n,k)$ has as its vertices the $k$-subsets of $\{1, 2, \dots, n\}$ where two vertices are adjacent iff their intersection has size $k-1$. A graph is Hamilton-connected if every two ...
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Hamiltonian cycles in Cayley graph on alternating group

Let $G=\operatorname{Cay}(A_n,S)$ be the Cayley graph on the Alternating group $A_n\quad n\ge4$ with generating set $S=\{(1,2,3),(1,2,4),\ldots,(1,4,2),(1,3,2)\}$. One Hamiltonian cycle in $G$ for $n=...
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Constructing Hamiltonian circuits in acyclic digraphs

Any directed graph $G$ lacking cycles can acquire a Hamiltonian circuit through the addition of a sufficient number of edges. Q. Is there a method to minimize the addition of edges to achieve a ...
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Two more counterexamples to a conjecture from 1975 about hamiltonicity of digraphs

Question from 2013 gives one counterexample to Nash-Williams's conjecture 1975 about hamiltonicity of dense digraphs. In the linked answer, @LouisD "reverse engineered" the counterexample ...
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15-game graph contains a Hamiltonian path ? Lovász conjecture for groupoids, loops, quasigroups , etc?

Typically Cayley graphs are defined for groups and generators sets S. But basically one only needs some set S and another set V and partially defined operation SxV->V, then one defines graph with ...
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Number of pairs of edge-disjoint Hamilton cycles in complete graphs

Question: how many pairs $\lbrace H_i, H_j\rbrace$ of edge-disjoint Hamilton cycles are in the complete graph $K_n$ with $n$ vertices? while I could find information to the maximal number of edge-...
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Clique sizes of generalized Kneser graphs

Are there known bounds for clique size in generalized Kneser graphs $KG(n,k,t)=K(n,k,t-1)$, the graph formed by distinct $k$ subsets of $n$ set so that two subsets with at most $t$ elements in common ...
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Cycles in Kneser graphs with three vertices forming triangles

Consider the Kneser graphs $G=K(n,k)$. Is it possible to list how many even cycles, or, at the least, existence of an even cycle of a given order in $G$, such that any three consecutive vertices form ...
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