A conjecture on cycle-pancyclism in tournaments

Hortensia Galeana-Sánchez; Sergio Rajsbaum

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Cycle-pancyclism in bipartite tournaments I

Hortensia Galeana-Sánchez (2004)

Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

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Let T be a hamiltonian bipartite tournament with n vertices, γ a hamiltonian directed cycle of T, and k an even number. In this paper, the following question is studied: What is the maximum intersection with γ of a directed cycle of length k? It is proved that for an even k in the range 4 ≤ k ≤ [(n+4)/2], there exists a directed cycle $C_{h (k)}$ of length h(k), h(k) ∈ k,k-2 with $| A (C_{h (k)}) \cap A (γ) | \geq h (k) - 3$ and the result is best possible. In a forthcoming paper the case of directed cycles of length k, k even and k <...

Cycle-pancyclism in bipartite tournaments II

Hortensia Galeana-Sánchez (2004)

Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

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Let T be a hamiltonian bipartite tournament with n vertices, γ a hamiltonian directed cycle of T, and k an even number. In this paper the following question is studied: What is the maximum intersection with γ of a directed cycle of length k contained in T[V(γ)]? It is proved that for an even k in the range (n+6)/2 ≤ k ≤ n-2, there exists a directed cycle $C_{h (k)}$ of length h(k), h(k) ∈ k,k-2 with $| A (C_{h (k)}) \cap A (γ) | \geq h (k) - 4$ and the result is best possible. In a previous paper a similar result for 4 ≤ k ≤ (n+4)/2 was...

Cycles with a given number of vertices from each partite set in regular multipartite tournaments

Lutz Volkmann, Stefan Winzen (2006)

Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal

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If $x$ is a vertex of a digraph $D$ , then we denote by $d^{+} (x)$ and $d^{-} (x)$ the outdegree and the indegree of $x$ , respectively. A digraph $D$ is called regular, if there is a number $p \in ℕ$ such that $d^{+} (x) = d^{-} (x) = p$ for all vertices $x$ of $D$ . A $c$ -partite tournament is an orientation of a complete $c$ -partite graph. There are many results about directed cycles of a given length or of directed cycles with vertices from a given number of partite sets. The idea is now to combine the two properties. In this article, we examine in particular,...

Pancyclism and small cycles in graphs

Ralph Faudree, Odile Favaron, Evelyne Flandrin, Hao Li (1996)

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We first show that if a graph G of order n contains a hamiltonian path connecting two nonadjacent vertices u and v such that d(u)+d(v) ≥ n, then G is pancyclic. By using this result, we prove that if G is hamiltonian with order n ≥ 20 and if G has two nonadjacent vertices u and v such that d(u)+d(v) ≥ n+z, where z = 0 when n is odd and z = 1 otherwise, then G contains a cycle of length m for each 3 ≤ m ≤ max (dC(u,v)+1, [(n+19)/13]), $d_{C} (u, v)$ being the distance of u and v on a hamiltonian cycle...

Linear forests and ordered cycles

Guantao Chen, Ralph J. Faudree, Ronald J. Gould, Michael S. Jacobson, Linda Lesniak, Florian Pfender (2004)

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A collection $L = P ¹ \cup P ² \cup . . . \cup P^{t}$ (1 ≤ t ≤ k) of t disjoint paths, s of them being singletons with |V(L)| = k is called a (k,t,s)-linear forest. A graph G is (k,t,s)-ordered if for every (k,t,s)-linear forest L in G there exists a cycle C in G that contains the paths of L in the designated order as subpaths. If the cycle is also a hamiltonian cycle, then G is said to be (k,t,s)-ordered hamiltonian. We give sharp sum of degree conditions for nonadjacent vertices that imply a graph is (k,t,s)-ordered hamiltonian. ...

Pairs of forbidden class of subgraphs concerning $K_{1, 3}$ and P₆ to have a cycle containing specified vertices

Takeshi Sugiyama, Masao Tsugaki (2009)

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In [3], Faudree and Gould showed that if a 2-connected graph contains no $K_{1, 3}$ and P₆ as an induced subgraph, then the graph is hamiltonian. In this paper, we consider the extension of this result to cycles passing through specified vertices. We define the families of graphs which are extension of the forbidden pair $K_{1, 3}$ and P₆, and prove that the forbidden families implies the existence of cycles passing through specified vertices.

Hamiltonian-colored powers of strong digraphs

Garry Johns, Ryan Jones, Kyle Kolasinski, Ping Zhang (2012)

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For a strong oriented graph D of order n and diameter d and an integer k with 1 ≤ k ≤ d, the kth power $D^{k}$ of D is that digraph having vertex set V(D) with the property that (u, v) is an arc of $D^{k}$ if the directed distance $^{\to} d_{D} (u, v)$ from u to v in D is at most k. For every strong digraph D of order n ≥ 2 and every integer k ≥ ⌈n/2⌉, the digraph $D^{k}$ is Hamiltonian and the lower bound ⌈n/2⌉ is sharp. The digraph $D^{k}$ is distance-colored if each arc (u, v) of $D^{k}$ is assigned the color i where $i =^{\to} d_{D} (u, v)$ . The digraph...

Competition hypergraphs of digraphs with certain properties II. Hamiltonicity

Martin Sonntag, Hanns-Martin Teichert (2008)

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If D = (V,A) is a digraph, its competition hypergraph (D) has vertex set V and e ⊆ V is an edge of (D) iff |e| ≥ 2 and there is a vertex v ∈ V, such that $e = N_{D} ⁻ (v) = w \in V | (w, v) \in A$ . We give characterizations of (D) in case of hamiltonian digraphs D and, more general, of digraphs D having a τ-cycle factor. The results are closely related to the corresponding investigations for competition graphs in Fraughnaugh et al. [4] and Guichard [6].

Problems remaining NP-complete for sparse or dense graphs

Ingo Schiermeyer (1995)

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For each fixed pair α,c > 0 let INDEPENDENT SET ( $m \leq c n^{α}$ ) and INDEPENDENT SET ( $m \geq (ⁿ ₂) - c n^{α}$ ) be the problem INDEPENDENT SET restricted to graphs on n vertices with $m \leq c n^{α}$ or $m \geq (ⁿ ₂) - c n^{α}$ edges, respectively. Analogously, HAMILTONIAN CIRCUIT ( $m \leq n + c n^{α}$ ) and HAMILTONIAN PATH ( $m \leq n + c n^{α}$ ) are the problems HAMILTONIAN CIRCUIT and HAMILTONIAN PATH restricted to graphs with $m \leq n + c n^{α}$ edges. For each ϵ > 0 let HAMILTONIAN CIRCUIT (m ≥ (1 - ϵ)(ⁿ₂)) and HAMILTONIAN PATH (m ≥ (1 - ϵ)(ⁿ₂)) be the problems HAMILTONIAN CIRCUIT and HAMILTONIAN PATH...

A note on arc-disjoint cycles in tournaments

Jan Florek (2014)

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We prove that every vertex v of a tournament T belongs to at least $m a x m i n δ ⁺ (T), 2 δ ⁺ (T) - d ⁺_{T} (v) + 1, m i n δ ¯ (T), 2 δ ¯ (T) - d ¯_{T} (v) + 1$ arc-disjoint cycles, where δ⁺(T) (or δ¯(T)) is the minimum out-degree (resp. minimum in-degree) of T, and $d ⁺_{T} (v)$ (or $d ¯_{T} (v)$ ) is the out-degree (resp. in-degree) of v.

An upper bound on the basis number of the powers of the complete graphs

Salar Y. Alsardary (2001)

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The basis number of a graph $G$ is defined by Schmeichel to be the least integer $h$ such that $G$ has an $h$ -fold basis for its cycle space. MacLane showed that a graph is planar if and only if its basis number is $\leq 2$ . Schmeichel proved that the basis number of the complete graph $K_{n}$ is at most $3$ . We generalize the result of Schmeichel by showing that the basis number of the $d$ -th power of $K_{n}$ is at most $2 d + 1$ .

Minimal and minimum size latin bitrades of each genus

James Lefevre, Diane Donovan, Nicholas J. Cavenagh, Aleš Drápal (2007)

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Suppose that $T^{\circ}$ and $T^{☆}$ are partial latin squares of order $n$ , with the property that each row and each column of $T^{\circ}$ contains the same set of entries as the corresponding row or column of $T^{☆}$ . In addition, suppose that each cell in $T^{\circ}$ contains an entry if and only if the corresponding cell in $T^{☆}$ contains an entry, and these entries (if they exist) are different. Then the pair $T = (T^{\circ}, T^{☆})$ forms a . The of $T$ is the total number of filled cells in $T^{\circ}$ (equivalently $T^{☆}$ ). The latin bitrade is if there is no...

A note on a new condition implying pancyclism

Evelyne Flandrin, Hao Li, Antoni Marczyk, Mariusz Woźniak (2001)

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We first show that if a 2-connected graph G of order n is such that for each two vertices u and v such that δ = d(u) and d(v) < n/2 the edge uv belongs to E(G), then G is hamiltonian. Next, by using this result, we prove that a graph G satysfying the above condition is either pancyclic or isomorphic to $K_{n / 2, n / 2}$ .