Hamiltonian connected hourglass free line graphs

نویسندگان

  • Dengxin Li
  • Hong-Jian Lai
  • Yehong Shao
  • Mingquan Zhan
چکیده

Thomassen conjectured [8] that every 4-connected line graph is hamiltonian. An hourglass is a graph isomorphic to K5−E(C4), where C4 is a cycle of length 4 in K5. In [2], it is shown that every 4-connected line graph without an induced subgraph isomorphic to the hourglass is hamiltonian connected. In this note, we prove that every 3-connected, essentially 4-connected hourglass free line graph is hamiltonian connected.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Discrete Mathematics

دوره 308  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008