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Regular factors containing a given Hamiltonian cycle. (English) Zbl 1117.05091

Akiyama, Jin (ed.) et al., Combinatorial geometry and graph theory. Indonesia-Japan joint conference, IJCCGGT 2003, Bandung, Indonesia, September 13–16, 2003. Revised selected papers. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 3-540-24401-8/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3330, 123-132 (2005).
Summary: Let \(k \geq 1\) be an integer and let \(G\) be a graph having a sufficiently large order \(n\). Suppose that \(kn\) is even, the minimum degree of \(G\) is at least \(k+2\), and the degree sum of each pair of nonadjacent vertices in \(G\) is at least \(n+\alpha\), where \(\alpha = 3\) for odd \(k\) and \(\alpha = 4\) for even \(k\). Then \(G\) has a \(k\)-factor (i.e. a \(k\)-regular spanning subgraph) which is edge-disjoint from a given Hamiltonian cycle. The lower bound on the degree condition is sharp. As a consequence, we have an Ore-type condition for graphs to have a \(k\)-factor containing a given Hamiltonian cycle.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1063.05001].

MSC:

05C70 Edge subsets with special properties (factorization, matching, partitioning, covering and packing, etc.)
05C45 Eulerian and Hamiltonian graphs
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