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What is the complexity of finding a third Hamilton Cycle in cubic graph?

According to Smith Theorem: if a cubic graph has a hamilton circuit then it must have a second one. SMITH : Given a Hamilton circuit in a 3-regular graph, find a second Hamilton circuit. It is known that SMITH is in PPA, but it is unknown whether is it PPA-complete.

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According to Tutte[1]: Every edge of a cubic graph lies on an even number of Hamilton cycles.Consequently a cubic hamiltonian graph has at least three Hamilton cycles.

My question: What is the complexity of finding a third Hamilton Cycle?

[1] W.T. Tutte, On Hamiltonian circuits, J. London Math. Soc., 21 (1946), 98–101.

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