Bermond conjectured that if G is Hamilton cycle decomposable, then L(G), the line graph of G, is Hamilton cycle decomposable. In this paper, we construct a perfect set of Euler tours for the complete tripartite graph Kp,p,p for any prime p and hence prove Bermond’s conjecture for G = Kp,p,p.

For the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) on Halin graphs with three types of cost functions: sum, bottleneck and balanced and with arbitrary real edge costs we compute in polynomial time the persistency partition $E_{All}$, $E_{Some}$, $E_{None}$ of the edge set E, where: $E_{All}$ = e ∈ E, e belongs to all optimum solutions, $E_{None}$ = e ∈ E, e does not belong to any optimum solution and $E_{Some}$ = e ∈ E, e belongs to some but not to all optimum solutions.

In [1], Brousek characterizes all triples of connected graphs, G₁,G₂,G₃, with $G_i=K_{1,3}$ for some i = 1,2, or 3, such that all G₁G₂ G₃-free graphs contain a hamiltonian cycle. In [8], Faudree, Gould, Jacobson and Lesniak consider the problem of finding triples of graphs G₁,G₂,G₃, none of which is a $K_{1,s}$, s ≥ 3 such that G₁G₂G₃-free graphs of sufficiently large order contain a hamiltonian cycle. In [6], a characterization was given of all triples G₁,G₂,G₃ with none being $K_{1,3}$, such that all G₁G₂G₃-free graphs are...

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

Given a graph G, its partially square graph G* is a graph obtained by adding an edge (u,v) for each pair u, v of vertices of G at distance 2 whenever the vertices u and v have a common neighbor x satisfying the condition $N_G\left(x\right)\subseteq N_G\left[u\right]\cup N_G\left[v\right]$, where $N_G\left[x\right]=N_G\left(x\right)\cup x$. In the case where G is a claw-free graph, G* is equal to G². We define $\sigma °ₜ=min{\sum }_{x\in S}{d}_G\left(x\right):SisanindependentsetinG*and\left|S\right|=t$. We give for hamiltonicity and circumference new sufficient conditions depending on σ° and we improve some known results.

In an Artinian ring R every element of R can be expressed as the sum of two units if and only if R/J(R) does not contain a summand isomorphic to the field with two elements. This result is used to describe those finite rings R for which Γ(R) contains a Hamiltonian cycle where Γ(R) is the (simple) graph defined on the elements of R with an edge between vertices r and s if and only if r - s is invertible. It is also shown that for an Artinian ring R the number of connected components of the graph...

The concept of signed domination number of an undirected graph (introduced by J. E. Dunbar, S. T. Hedetniemi, M. A. Henning and P. J. Slater) is transferred to directed graphs. Exact values are found for particular types of tournaments. It is proved that for digraphs with a directed Hamiltonian cycle the signed domination number may be arbitrarily small.