Ruixia Wang - A sufficient condition for a balanced bipartite digraph to be hamiltonian

dmtcs:1239 - Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, November 10, 2017, Vol. 19 no. 3 - https://doi.org/10.23638/DMTCS-19-3-11
A sufficient condition for a balanced bipartite digraph to be hamiltonianArticle

Authors: Ruixia Wang

    We describe a new type of sufficient condition for a balanced bipartite digraph to be hamiltonian. Let $D$ be a balanced bipartite digraph and $x,y$ be distinct vertices in $D$. $\{x, y\}$ dominates a vertex $z$ if $x\rightarrow z$ and $y\rightarrow z$; in this case, we call the pair $\{x, y\}$ dominating. In this paper, we prove that a strong balanced bipartite digraph $D$ on $2a$ vertices contains a hamiltonian cycle if, for every dominating pair of vertices $\{x, y\}$, either $d(x)\ge 2a-1$ and $d(y)\ge a+1$ or $d(x)\ge a+1$ and $d(y)\ge 2a-1$. The lower bound in the result is sharp.


    Volume: Vol. 19 no. 3
    Section: Graph Theory
    Published on: November 10, 2017
    Accepted on: October 3, 2017
    Submitted on: August 16, 2016
    Keywords: Mathematics - Combinatorics,05CXX

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