A sufficient condition for pancyclic graphs

  • Authors:
  • Kewen Zhao;Yue Lin;Ping Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Information Science, Qiongzhou University, Sanya, Hainan, 572200, PR China;Department of Mathematics, Qiongzhou University, Sanya, Hainan, 572200, PR China;Department of Mathematics, Western Michigan University, MI 49008-5152, USA

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In 2005, Rahman and Kaykobad proved that if G is a connected graph of order n such that d(x)+d(y)+d(x,y)=n+1 for each pair x, y of distinct nonadjacent vertices in G, where d(x,y) is the length of a shortest path between x and y in G, then G has a Hamiltonian path [Inform. Process. Lett. 94 (2005) 37-41]. In 2006 Li proved that if G is a 2-connected graph of order n=3 such that d(x)+d(y)+d(x,y)=n+2 for each pair x,y of nonadjacent vertices in G, then G is pancyclic or G=K"n"/"2","n"/"2 where n=4 is an even integer [Inform. Process. Lett. 98 (2006) 159-161]. In this work we prove that if G is a 2-connected graph of order n such that d(x)+d(y)+d(x,y)=n+1 for all pairs x, y of distinct nonadjacent vertices in G, then G is pancyclic or G belongs to one of four specified families of graphs.