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The NPO-completeness of the longest Hamiltonian cycle problem. (English) Zbl 1338.68089

Summary: In this paper, the longest Hamiltonian cycle problem and the longest Hamiltonian path problem are proved to be NPO-complete.

MSC:

68Q17 Computational difficulty of problems (lower bounds, completeness, difficulty of approximation, etc.)
05C38 Paths and cycles
90C27 Combinatorial optimization

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