On a class of polynomially solvable travelling salesman problems
In this paper the following theorem is proved: Let be a connected graph of order and let be a matching in . Then there exists a hamiltonian cycle of such that .
In 1995, F. Jaeger and M.-C. Heydemann began to work on a conjecture on binary operations which are related to homomorphisms of De Bruijn digraphs. For this, they have considered the class of digraphs such that for any integer , has exactly walks of length , where is the order of . Recently, C. Delorme has obtained some results on the original conjecture. The aim of this paper is to recall the conjecture and to report where all the authors arrived.
A graph G of order n is called arbitrarily vertex decomposable if for each sequence (n₁,...,nₖ) of positive integers such that , there exists a partition (V₁,...,Vₖ) of vertex set of G such that for every i ∈ 1,...,k the set induces a connected subgraph of G on vertices. We consider arbitrarily vertex decomposable unicyclic graphs with dominating cycle. We also characterize all such graphs with at most four hanging vertices such that exactly two of them have a common neighbour.
Is it possible to label the edges of Kₙ with distinct integer weights so that every Hamilton cycle has the same total weight? We give a local condition characterizing the labellings that witness this question's perhaps surprising affirmative answer. More generally, we address the question that arises when "Hamilton cycle" is replaced by "k-factor" for nonnegative integers k. Such edge-labellings are in correspondence with certain vertex-labellings, and the link allows us to determine (up to a constant...