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Longest Cycles in 3-Connected 3-Regular Graphs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

J. A. Bondy  and
M. Simonovits
J. A. Bondy
Affiliation:
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
M. Simonovits
Affiliation:
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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In this paper, we study the following question: How long a cycle must there be in a 3-connected 3-regular graph on n vertices? For planar graphs this question goes back to Tait [6], who conjectured that any planar 3-connected 3-regular graph is hamiltonian. Tutte [7] disproved this conjecture by finding a counterexample on 46 vertices. Using Tutte's example, Grunbaum and Motzkin [3] constructed an infinite family of 3-connected 3-regular planar graphs such that the length of a longest cycle in each member of the family is at most nc, where c = 1 – 2–17 and n is the number of vertices. The exponent c was subsequently reduced by Walther [8, 9] and by Grùnbaum and Walther [4].

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , April 1980 , pp. 987 - 992
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1980

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