Heavy subgraph pairs for traceability of block-chains

Autor: Li Binlong, Broersma Hajo, Zhang Shenggui
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory, Vol 34, Iss 2, Pp 287-307 (2014)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2083-5892
DOI: 10.7151/dmgt.1737
Popis: A graph is called traceable if it contains a Hamilton path, i.e., a path containing all its vertices. Let G be a graph on n vertices. We say that an induced subgraph of G is o−1-heavy if it contains two nonadjacent vertices which satisfy an Ore-type degree condition for traceability, i.e., with degree sum at least n−1 in G. A block-chain is a graph whose block graph is a path, i.e., it is either a P1, P2, or a 2-connected graph, or a graph with at least one cut vertex and exactly two end-blocks. Obviously, every traceable graph is a block-chain, but the reverse does not hold. In this paper we characterize all the pairs of connected o−1-heavy graphs that guarantee traceability of block-chains. Our main result is a common extension of earlier work on degree sum conditions, forbidden subgraph conditions and heavy subgraph conditions for traceability
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