Hamilton decompositions of line graphs of some bipartite graphs

David Pike

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Hamilton decompositions of line graphs of some bipartite graphs

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Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, A1C 5S7

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Some bipartite Hamilton decomposable graphs that are regular of degree δ ≡ 2 (mod 4) are shown to have Hamilton decomposable line graphs. One consequence is that every bipartite Hamilton decomposable graph G with connectivity κ(G) = 2 has a Hamilton decomposable line graph L(G).

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Hamilton cycles, graph decompositions, line graphs

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Hamilton decompositions of line graphs of some bipartite graphs

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