This is intended as a survey article covering recent developments in the area of hamiltonian graphs, that is, graphs containing a spanning cycle. This article also contains some material on related topics such as traceable, hamiltonian-connected and pancyclic graphs and digraphs, as well as an extensive bibliography of papers in the area. 1. Supported by O.N.R. contract number N000014-88-K-0070.

We prove that claw-free graphs, containing an induced dominating path, have a Hamiltonian path, and that 2-connected claw-free graphs, containing an induced doubly dominating cycle or a pair of vertices such that there exist two internally disjoint induced dominating paths connecting them, have a Hamiltonian cycle. As a consequence, we obtain linear time algorithms for both problems if the inpu...

We prove that claw-free graphs, containing an induced dominating path, have a Hamiltonian path, and that 2-connected claw-free graphs, containing an induced doubly dominating cycle or a pair of vertices such that there exist two internally disjoint induced dominating paths connecting them, have a Hamiltonian cycle. As a consequence, we obtain linear time algorithms for both problems if the inpu...

The purpose of this paper is the study of Cayley graph associated to a semihypergroup(or hypergroup). In this regards first  we associate a Cayley graph to every semihypergroup and then we study theproperties of this graph, such as  Hamiltonian cycles in this  graph.  Also, by some of examples we will illustrate  the properties and behavior of  these Cayley  graphs, in particulars we show that ...

The butterfly graphs were originally defined as the underlying graphs of FFT networks which can perform the fast Fourier transform (FFT) very eficiently. Since butterfly graphs are regular of degree four, it can tolerate at most two edge faults in the worst case in order to establish a Hamiltonian cycle. In this paper, we show that butterfly graphs contain a fault-free Hamiltonian cycle even if...

This paper analyzes what structural features of graph problems allow efficient parallel algorithms. We survey some parallel algorithms for typical problems on three kinds of graphs, outerplanar graphs, trapezoid graphs and in-tournament graphs. Our results on the shortest path problem, the longest path problem and the maximum flow problem on outerplanar graphs, the minimum-weight connected domi...

This result is best possible for k = 3 since the Petersen graph is a nonhamiltonian, 2-connected, 3-regular graph on 10 vertices. It is essentially best possible for k > 4 since there exist non-hamiltonian, 2-connected, kregular graphs on 3k + 4 vertices for k even, and 3k + 5 vertices for all k. Examples of such graphs are given in [ 1, 3 1. The problem of determining the values of k for which...

We consider toughness conditions that guarantee the existence of a hamiltonian cycle in ktrees, a subclass of the class of chordal graphs. By a result of Chen et al. 18-tough chordal graphs are hamiltonian, and by a result of Bauer et al. there exist nontraceable chordal graphs with toughness arbitrarily close to 4 . It is believed that the best possible value of the toughness guaranteeing hami...