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This drawing with order-3 symmetry is the one given by Kempe (1886). $\begingroup$ A bipartite graph with an odd number of vertices cannot have a Hamiltonian cycle but the question asks for Hamiltonian paths. Copyright © 2016 Khalid A. Alsatami et al. Theorem 1. Let be disjoint digraphs with vertices, respectively. (iii); ; . is a Hamiltonian cycle, a 1-factor, or an almost 1-factor. %���� We can also see that this is true without using the previous theorem, since if a bipartite graph is Hamiltonian and is properly colored red and blue, then its Hamiltonian cycle must be of even order It follows (e.g., Section 2.1 of [2]) that is acyclic, and so (ii) holds. 38 0 obj (i)Orient the edges in the Hamiltonian cycle as follows:(ii)For each , and for each , assign directions to edges of not in as follows: We make the following observations stated in the lemma below. Then has a dicycle cover with . We will be providing unlimited waivers of publication charges for accepted research articles as well as case reports and case series related to COVID-19. The matching graph M(G) of a graph G has a vertex set of all perfect matchings of G, with two vertices being adjacent whenever the union of the corresponding perfect matchings forms a Hamiltonian cycle of G. We show that the matching graph M(K n,n) of a complete bipartite graph is bipartite if and only if n is even or n = 1. %PDF-1.5 By Lemma 5(iv), we must have . Second, we show 3-SAT P Hamiltonian Cycle. (iv)The dicycle is the only dicycle of containing the arc . K n;n is a simple graph on 2nvertices. x��T;S�@��[&E��{�T������8B�L ���{�QG�-�}��}�{�P��'�K���{8H#�������Q�j�O;K&�~���뿪�$�]�8�����7�����a�럠�L�V���1��b /Length 329 Since , we conclude that , contrary to the assumption that . Thus we have . This bound is best possible. A graph that contains a Hamiltonian cycle is called a Hamiltonian graph. Thus, has a dicycle cover with .Let be disjoint Hamiltonian simple graphs for . �E[W�"���w��q�[vA8&�!㩅|��p�ڦ�j>���d͟���Ъ]���O� �Tk�wYh-s���j^�մ�)LtP�A�Q;.�s{�h�*/�Ԣo�)�TQ†���2�RLHBr�x(�����b�Q1o����������ٔ�^�Ƞ�)8�I9z��%��Mu��e�&.1�_Au���ʓ�(ZP�]�p{��a We start with 2 sums of digraphs. A graph is Hamiltonian if it has a cycle that visits every vertex exactly once; such a cycle is called a Hamiltonian cycle. Best possible upper bounds of dicycle covers are obtained in a number of classes of digraphs including strong tournaments, Hamiltonian oriented graphs, Hamiltonian oriented complete bipartite graphs, and families of possibly non-Hamiltonian digraphs obtained from these digraphs via a sequence of 2-sum operations. The problem of determining if a graph is Hamiltonian is well known to be NP-complete. By Lemmas 3 and 6, Theorem 1 follows. In this section, all graphs are assumed to be simple. If is obtained from a simple undirected graph by assigning an orientation to the edges of , then is an oriented graph. Box 6644, Buraydah 51452, Saudi Arabia, Department of Mathematics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA, College of Mathematics Sciences, Xinjiang Normal University, Urumqi 830054, China, Orient the edges in the Hamiltonian cycle, J. This bound is best possible. The conclusions of the next corollaries follow from Theorem 1. Without loss of generality and by Lemma 2, we further assume that .Let be the smallest integer such that . Lai and H. Y. Lai, “Cycle covering of plane triangulations,”, H.-J. Let be integer, let be a Hamiltonian graph with vertices and edges, and let be a complete graph on vertices: (i)Any member in has a dicycle cover with . If is an arc subset of , then denotes the digraph . Since an oriented balanced complete . Let denote the directed Hamiltonian cycle of . 16 (1996) 87–91] asserts that every perfect matching of the hypercube Q d can be extended to a Hamiltonian cycle. Given an undirected complete graph of N vertices where N > 2. Let denote a balanced complete bipartite graph. Lemma 3. This bound is best possible. Since , we assume that and . /Filter /FlateDecode (v)The dicycle is the unique Hamiltonian dicycle of . We call the vertices in and the out-neighbours and the in-neighbours of . Definition 4. Suppose that has a dicycle cover . Thus a digraph is strong if and only if . If the cycle is also a hamiltonian cycle, then Gis said to be k-ordered hamiltonian. Bipartite permutation graphs form a proper subclass of chordal bipartite graphs, and unit interval x��RMO�@��W����ag��W�"�$M lB�D���nAB�. Hamiltonian cycle on planar undirected bipartite max-degree-3 graphs is NP-complete by reduction from the corresponding directed graph problem [IPS82]. (i) follows immediately from Definition 4(i). Let be an oriented graph on vertices and arcs. Each of the following holds for the digraph : (i)The dicycle is a Hamiltonian dicycle of . Let denote the complete digraph on vertices. Let be a Hamiltonian graph with vertices and arcs; let ( is an integer) denote a Hamiltonian orientation of . /Length 390 Since an oriented balanced complete bipartite graph has arcs, so, by Theorem 1, we have .To prove the bound is best possible, we need to construct, for each integer , a Hamiltonian oriented balanced complete bipartite graph on vertices such that any dicycle cover of must have at least dicycles in . /Length 215 Bondy [3] conjectured that if is a 2-connected simple graph with vertices, then has a cycle cover with . Without loss of generality, we consider oriented graphs and ; suppose that there exists a dicycle such that Thus, there must exist four different arcswith and , as shown in Figure 2, or four different arcswith and , as shown in Figure 3.By Definition 9, Lemma 5(iii), and (6), we have , and so or , contrary to the assumption that is a dicycle. can be extended to a Hamiltonian cycle. A dicycle cover of a digraph is a collection of dicycles of such that . Appl. Suppose we have a black box to solve Hamiltonian Cycle, how do we First, HamCycle 2NP. If there exists a Cycle in the connected graph that contains all the vertices of the graph, then that cycle is called as a Hamiltonian circuit. An early exact algorithm for finding a Hamiltonian cycle on a directed graph was the enumerative algorithm of Martello. 2 Hamiltonian and traceable bipartite graphs In this section, we consider the bipartite graphs. Definition 10. << Box 6644, Buraydah 51452, Saudi Arabia, 2Department of Mathematics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA, 3College of Mathematics Sciences, Xinjiang Normal University, Urumqi 830054, China. I was asked this as a small part of one of my interviews for admission to Oxford. This bound is best possible. We are about to show that Theorem 1 can be applied to obtain dicycle cover bounds for certain families of oriented graphs. It is natural to consider the number of dicycles needed to cover a digraph. Let and denote the out-neighbourhood and in-neighbourhood of in , respectively. A directed path in a digraph from a vertex to a vertex is called a -dipath. We switch along the cycle v 1v 2v 3v 4, drawn thick.Right side: The modi ed graph … Let Dbe a strongly connected balanced bipartite directed graph of order 2a≥ 10 other than a directed cycle. Then contains a unique dicycle containing . v 2 v 1 v 4 v 3 v 2 v 1 v 4 v 3 H H 0 Figure 1.1: Example of a switch for k= 2. A graph G is Hamiltonian if it has a spanning cycle. A cycle cover of a graph is a collection of cycles of such that . If , then there exists such that . A weakly connected digraph has a dicycle cover if and only if . This completes the proof. x��SIO�P��+���x3}[�j\�ŭ�bPK���}�� F�D�����*a;rE�����HH �j K�@] s����R�c�B�������u�it7�t�ZA��pBK��@� ��Ut�X֏U�_��[n?�� 2016, Article ID 7942192, 5 pages, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/7942192, 1Department of Mathematics, College of Science, Qassim University, P.O. It follows from Lemma 5(iv) that we must have . The upshot is that the Ore property gives … Let be disjoint strong tournaments with vertices, respectively. For any arc , since is strong, there must be a directed -path in . Let be an oriented graph on vertices and arcs. Inst. Thus, by Lemma 5(v), is the unique Hamiltonian dicycle of .Let be a dicycle cover of . Corollary 8. Hence the corollary below follows from Theorem 1. A digraph is weakly connected if the underlying graph of is connected. Proof. 44 0 obj Thus, for a digraph ,  if and only if, for any proper nonempty subset , . (v) Let be a Hamiltonian dicycle of . So for n 2, we have that K n;n has at least 3 vertices. This proves that must be strong.Conversely, assume that is strong. Lee [18,19], Lee and Lin [22], and Lin [23] established necessary and su cient conditions for the ex-istence of (Ck;Sk)-decompositions of the complete bipartite graph, the Let and be two disjoint digraphs; and The 2-sum of and is obtained from the union of and by identifying the arcs and ; that is, and . By the choice of , we must have , and so . Since is a dicycle cover of , there exists a dicycle with . Khalid A. Alsatami, Hong-Jian Lai, Xindong Zhang, "Dicycle Cover of Hamiltonian Oriented Graphs", Journal of Discrete Mathematics, vol. Corollary 13. Let . Let G[X,Y] be a bipartite graph. Lai and X. Li, “Small cycle cover of 2-connected cubic graphs,”, F. Yang and X. Li, “Small cycle covers of 3-connected cubic graphs,”, P. Camion, “Chemins et circuits hamiltoniens des graphes complets,”, J. W. Moon, “On subtournaments of a tournament,”. (v) = n / 2 for all v. This means the only simple bipartite graph that satisfies the Ore condition is the complete bipartite graph K n / 2, n / 2, in which the two parts have size n / 2 and every vertex of X is adjacent to every vertex of Y. Let be an arc of . This bound is best possible. For each , let denote the fundamental dicycle of with respect to . then the graph is not Hamiltonian. By Definition 10, is a dicycle cover of . More precisely, we show that the Hamiltonian cycle reconfiguration problem is PSPACE-complete for chordal bipartite graphs, strongly chordal split graphs, and bipartite graphs with maximum degree 6. Theorem 11. Lemma 2. We investigate the problem of determining the upper bounds for the minimum number of dicycles which cover all arcs in a strong digraph. stream This bound is best possible. Camion [13, 14] proved that every strong tournament is Hamiltonian. Proof. Fan [10] settled this conjecture by showing that it holds for all simple 2-connected graphs. Corollary 8. In particular, a cycle is a 2-regular connected nontrivial graph. Cycle Spectra of Hamiltonian Graphs Kevin G. Milans†, Florian Pfender‡, Dieter Rautenbach , Friedrich Regen , and Douglas B. Then is a dicycle cover of with . (iv) Let be a dicycle of with . A. Bondy, “Small cycle double covers of graphs,” in, Y. X. Luo and R. S. Chen, “Cycle covers of 2-connected 3-regular graphs,”, H.-J. /Filter /FlateDecode There does not exist a dicycle whose arcs intersect arcs in two or more ’s  .By Definition 9, we have   . << We are committed to sharing findings related to COVID-19 as quickly as possible. Since is a dicycle, there must be with such that . For notational convenience, we adopt the notations in Definition 4 and denote . endstream 26 0 obj Since a Hamilton cycle uses all the vertices in V $\endgroup$ – David Richerby Nov 28 '13 at 17:38 endobj Let be a complete bipartite graph with vertex bipartition and ; then has Hamiltonian cycle if and only if ; that is, is balanced. Since , we choose the largest label , such that . In this section, we will show that Theorem 1 can also be applied to certain non-Hamiltonian digraphs which can be built via 2 sums. Review articles are excluded from this waiver policy. stream tonian Cycle is NP-complete for triangular grid graphs, while a hamiltonian cycle in connected, locally connected triangular grid graph can be found in polynomial time. (vi) By contradiction, we assume that has a dicycle which contains two arcs: . >> By Corollary 7 and Theorem 11, we have the following corollary. A Hamiltonian cycle in Γ is a cycle that visits every vertex of V exactly once. Proof. A Hamiltonian cycle in a graph is a cycle that visits each vertex exactly once. (ii)The digraph is acyclic. Thus, . stream We prove that M(K A graph is Hamiltonian-connected if for every pair of vertices there is a Hamiltonian path between the two vertices. We give sufficient Ore-type conditions for a balanced bipartite graph to contain every matching in a hamiltonian cycle or a cycle not necessarily hamiltonian. Choose the largest integer with such that . /Filter /FlateDecode By Theorem 1, has a dicycle cover with . Let denote a balanced complete bipartite graph. Similarly, a graph Ghas a Hamiltonian cycle if Every Hamiltonian orientation of balanced complete bipartite graph has a dicycle cover with . We consider finite loopless graphs and digraphs, and undefined notations and terms will follow [1] for graphs and [2] for digraphs. Hamiltonian Path is NP-Complete CSC 463 March 5, 2020 1 Hamiltonian Path A graph Ghas a Hamiltonian path from sto tif there is an sto tpath that visits all of the vertices exactly once. (vi)If is a dicycle of , then contains at most one arc in . We start with an observation, stated as lemma below. We may assume that and is a Hamiltonian cycle of . Hamilton Cycles in Bipartite … (ii)In particular, any has a dicycle cover with . By the definition of , we have and . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Proof. The problems of finding necessary and sufficient conditions for graphs to be Hamiltonian If has a Hamiltonian dicycle, then has a dicycle cover with . /Filter /FlateDecode The Petersen graph has a Hamiltonian path but no Hamiltonian cycle. Why? It follows that is a dicycle of containing , and so is a dicycle cover of . By Definition 4, either and or and . Lemma 5. It is the smallest bridgeless cubic graph with no Hamiltonian cycle. By Definition 4(i) and (ii), , contrary to the fact that is a Hamiltonian dicycle of . For , we defineLetWhen , we write and . This proves (iv). A graph that has a Hamiltonian cycle is said to be Hamiltonian. Lai and H. Y. Lai, “Small cycle covers of planar graphs,”, D. W. Barnette, “Cycle covers of planar 3-connected graphs,”, G. Fan, “Subgraph coverings and edge switchings,”, H.-J. This contradiction justifies (vi). Since is Hamiltonian, we may assume that and is a Hamiltonian cycle of . Lai and H. Y. Lai, “Cycle covers in graphs without subdivisions of K4,”, H.-J. >> endstream Every strong tournament on vertices has a dicycle cover with . I almost immediately This bound is best possible. Then has a dicycle cover with . 14 0 obj By the maximality of and by Definition 4(i), we conclude that . This proves the corollary. By the minimality of , we must have . (iii) This follows immediately from Definition 4. ��JJ�y�Ω^1���)d{���� ym N��b=�"�^��$��z����^�������X�)�������ހ=ؑ��0���Q��0Ë��f���f�&�XUo�7��T��:��U����f��_���YM��:L�=8gS*�4 Corollary 7. We construct an orientation as the orientation of Definition 4; thus, by Lemmas 5 and 6, every dicycle cover of must have at least dicycles. Sign up here as a reviewer to help fast-track new submissions. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. This proves Claim 1.By Claim 1, for every dicycle in , all arcs in (except for the arc () belong to exactly one of oriented graphs By Definition 4 and Lemma 6, every dicycle cover of oriented graph must have at least dicycles. This bound is best possible. By Definition 4(ii), we have , contrary to the fact that is a dicycle of containing . ǁ@N�� �Y(&ˈ�RH�6k���2��?Y����%�'-~�� �ȴ�����n���UM5�IJ&���b�fT��2�VY7UQ�xD_ڌOI��2���Ͱ�ݍ3�F�akp(j6�z�j��N����5�{�>+{���{� ד/�[0t_!�u�Q�K��ZP�|�M��zg��_��B��w�������-2kM��T�0&�T(gy%��lm�eA��v7H��&�+� We construct the 2-sum digraph from the union of by identifying the arcs such that and . The matching graph M (G) of a graph G has a vertex set of all perfect matchings of G, with two vertices being adjacent whenever the union of the corresponding perfect matchings forms a Hamiltonian cycle of G. We show that theM endobj Barnette [9] proved that if is a 3-connected simple planar graph of order , then the edges of can be covered by at most cycles. Since is weakly connected, contains an arc . This bound is best possible. Theorem K m;n has a Hamilton cycle if and only if m = n 2. For a positive integer , let denote the family of all 2-sum generated digraphs , as well as a member in the family (for notational convenience). A dicycle cover of a digraph is a family of dicycles of such that each arc of lies in at least one dicycle in . If the cycle is also a hamiltonian cycle, then G is said to be k-ordered hamiltonian. Hamiltonian cycle from a complete bipartite graph; the h it is maximally nonhamiltonian: it has no Hamiltonian cycle, but any two vertices can be connecte ntries are absent above if the graph has no Hamiltonian cycle, which is If , then is the subdigraph induced by . (ii)In particular, any has a dicycle cover with . We use denoting an arc with tail and head . The sharpness of these corollaries can be demonstrated using similar constructions displayed in Lemma 6 and Corollary 8. To complete the proof of Theorem 1, we present the next lemma. Since is a dicycle of , there must be such that . Hence, . It follows by that cannot contain , contrary to the assumption. If bipartite graph has a Hamiltonian cycle, then is balanced. As in [2], denotes the arc-strong-connectivity of . Thus, by Lemma 5(v), is the unique Hamiltonian dicycle of . >> In the next section, we will first show that every Hamiltonian oriented graph with vertices and arcs can be covered by at most dicycles. Corollary 14. endstream A subgraph H of an edge-colored graph G is rainbow if all of its edges have different colors. Let be a Hamiltonian graph and let be the orientation of given in Definition 4. West March 23, 2012 Abstract We prove that every Hamiltonian graph with n vertices and m edges The question led to these cycles being considered, and I was asked, "how many such [cycles] are there?" Let be integer, let be a Hamiltonian bipartite graph with vertices and edges, and let be a complete bipartite graph: (i)Any has a dicycle cover with . >> In a max-degree-3 directed graph, each vertex has either in-degree or out-degree 1, so that edge must be in any Hamiltonian cycle. << A Hamiltonian cycle, Hamiltonian circuit, vertex tour or graph cycle is a cycle that visits each vertex exactly once. A digraph is strong if, for any distinct , has a -dipath. Moreover, for the hamiltonian case we prove that the condition is almost best possible. Definition 9. We present a construction of such an orientation . In graph theory, a cycle graph , sometimes simply known as an -cycle (Pemmaraju and Skiena 2003, p. 248), is a graph on nodes containing a single cycle through all nodes. Then is an oriented graph. In the following, we call the fundamental dicycle of with respect to . The complete bipartite graph K n;n is Hamiltonian, for all n 2. Let be a dicycle and let be an arc not in but with . By Lemma 5(vi), . A search procedure by Frank Rubin divides the edges of the graph into three classes: those that must be in the path, those that cannot be in the path, and undecided. Complete Graph: A graph is said to be complete if each possible vertices is connected through an Edge. The best possible number of cycles needed to cover cubic graphs has been obtained in [11, 12]. << While there are several necessary conditions for Hamiltonicity, the Let denote a sequence of 2 sums of , that is, . Bondy [3] showed that this conjecture, if proved, would be best possible. Every Hamiltonian orientation of balanced complete bipartite graph has a dicycle cover with . The Petersen graph is hypo-Hamiltonian: by deleting any vertex, such as the center vertex in the drawing, the remaining graph is Hamiltonian. Proof. It follows that if , then implies in . Let be disjoint Hamiltonian oriented graphs on vertices and arcs, respectively, and let . Let be a Hamiltonian simple graph. We prove the following. Since is a dicycle, there must be a vertex such that . Since , we have . stream Lai, “Cycle covers of planar graphs,”, H.-J. One defines an orientation as follows. ��}����4~�V ��`A��Z^�TȌ� �r�&����$��\�O���EC If has a Hamiltonian dicycle, then has a dicycle cover with . /Length 406 Luo and Chen [4] proved that this conjecture holds for 2-connected simple cubic graphs. We give minimum degree conditions and sum of degree conditions for nonadjacent vertices that imply a balanced bipartite graph to bek let G be an Dicycle Cover of Hamiltonian Oriented Graphs, Department of Mathematics, College of Science, Qassim University, P.O. We may assume that and is a Hamiltonian cycle of , and letFor notational convenience, we adopt the notations in Definition 4 and denote . Bipartite Graphs, Complete Bipartite Graph with Solved Examples - Graph Theory Hindi Classes Discrete Maths - Graph Theory Video Lectures for B.Tech, M.Tech, MCA Students in Hindi To prove that Theorem 1 is best possible, we need to construct, for each integer , a Hamiltonian oriented graph on vertices and arcs such that any dicycle cover of must have at least dicycles in . 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 05C38 (05C45, 68Q25). A bipartite graph with vertex bipartition is balanced if . Proof. x�Ő;o1���S��[n��Gڠ ���]��A�\���cs ��$����yG�юK,Qb��?ȑ��� Left side: The Hamiltonian cycle His the circle. By Definition 4(ii), . Proof. A path with an odd number of vertices is bipartite but still has a Hamiltonian path. Hamiltonian Cycle is NP-complete Theorem Hamiltonian Cycle is NP-complete. Hamilton Cycles in Bipartite Graphs Theorem If a bipartite graph has a Hamilton cycle, then it must have an even number vertices. A different sort of cycle graph, here termed a group If is not strong, then there exists a proper nonempty subset such that . Proof. There exists an orientation such that every dicycle cover of must have at least dicycles. Let denote a tournament of order . Let be a Hamiltonian simple graph. HenceThis proves the lemma. Lemma 6. OR A Hamiltonian path which starts and ends at the same vertex is called as a Hamiltonian circuit. Proof. Corollary 12. Combin. It has been shown that, for plane triangulations, serial-parallel graphs, or planar graphs in general, one can have a better bound for the number of cycles used in a cover [5–8]. Kreweras' conjecture [G. Kreweras: Matchings and Hamiltonian cycles on hypercubes, Bull. For each arc , since is a dicycle cover of , there must be a dicycle such that . Any simple digraph on vertices can be viewed as a subdigraph of . Then we show that, for every Hamiltonian graph with vertices and edges, there exists an orientation of such that any dicycle cover of must have at least dicycles. endobj The bipartite graph G⋆[X,Y] is called quasi-complement of G, which is constructed as follows: V(G⋆) = V(G) and xy ∈ E(G⋆) if and only if xy ∈ E(G) for x ∈ X, y ∈ Y. Since , we have . Solution.Every cycle in a bipartite graph is even and alternates between vertices from V 1and V 2. We give minimum degree conditions and sum of degree conditions for nonadjacent vertices that imply a balanced bipartite graph to be k-ordered This bound is best possible. Then = . The task is to find the number of different Hamiltonian cycle of the graph. Following [2], for a digraph and denote the vertex set and arc set of , respectively. (ii) By Definition 4, the labels of the vertices satisfy only if . By the choice of , we can only have and . We assume that and (the case when is depicted in Figure 1).Claim 1. 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