Hamiltonian Cycles with Prescribed Edges in Hypercubes

  • Authors:
  • Tomás Dvorák

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Given a set ${\cal P}$ of at most 2n-3 prescribed edges ($n\ge2$), the n-dimensional hypercube Qn contains a Hamiltonian cycle passing through all edges of ${\cal P}$ iff the subgraph induced by ${\cal P}$ consists of pairwise vertex-disjoint paths. This answers a question of Caha and Koubek, who showed that for any $n\ge3$ there are 2n-2 edges of Qn not contained in any Hamiltonian cycle, but that still satisfy the above condition.