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Hamiltonian Cycles in Squares of Vertex-Unicyclic Graphs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Herbert Fleischner
Affiliation:
Institut für Informationsverarbeitung Wien, Austria
Arthur M. Hobbs
Affiliation:
Institut für Informationsverarbeitung Wien, Austria
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In this paper we determine necessary and sufficient conditions for the square of a vertex-unicyclic graph to be Hamiltonian. The conditions are simple and easily checked. Further, we show that the square of a vertex-unicyclic graph is Hamiltonian if and only if it is vertex-pancyclic.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1976

Footnotes

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Partial support for this work was received from the National Science Foundation Grant No. GP-43696.

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