NP-Completeness of Hamiltonian Cycle Problem on Rooted Directed Path Graphs

نویسندگان

  • Bhawani Sankar Panda
  • Dinabandhu Pradhan
چکیده

The Hamiltonian cycle problem is to decide whether a given graph has a Hamiltonian cycle. Bertossi and Bonuccelli (1986, Information Processing Letters, 23, 195200) proved that the Hamiltonian Cycle Problem is NP-Complete even for undirected path graphs and left the Hamiltonian cycle problem open for directed path graphs. Narasimhan (1989, Information Processing Letters, 32, 167-170) proved that the Hamiltonian Cycle Problem is NP-Complete even for directed path graphs and left the Hamiltonian cycle problem open for rooted directed path graphs. In this paper we resolve this open problem by proving that the Hamiltonian Cycle Problem is also NP-Complete for rooted directed path graphs.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره abs/0809.2443  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008