ArticleOriginal scientific text
Title
Forbidden triples implying Hamiltonicity: for all graphs
Authors 1, 2, 3
Affiliations
- University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, USA
- Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
- University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, CO 80217, USA
Abstract
In [2], Brousek characterizes all triples of graphs, G₁, G₂, G₃, with for some i = 1, 2, or 3, such that all G₁G₂G₃-free graphs contain a hamiltonian cycle. In [6], Faudree, Gould, Jacobson and Lesniak consider the problem of finding triples of graphs G₁, G₂, G₃, none of which is a , s ≥ 3 such that G₁, G₂, G₃-free graphs of sufficiently large order contain a hamiltonian cycle. In this paper, a characterization will be given of all triples G₁, G₂, G₃ with none being , such that all G₁G₂G₃-free graphs are hamiltonian. This result, together with the triples given by Brousek, completely characterize the forbidden triples G₁, G₂, G₃ such that all G₁G₂G₃-free graphs are hamiltonian.
Keywords
hamiltonian, induced subgraph, forbidden subgraphs
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