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Hamiltonicity in balancedk-partite graphs

Authors :
Michael S. Jacobson
Ronald J. Gould
Ralph J. Faudree
Linda Lesniak
Guantao Chen
Source :
Graphs and Combinatorics. 11:221-231
Publication Year :
1995
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 1995.

Abstract

One of the earliest results about hamiltonian graphs was given by Dirac. He showed that if a graphG has orderp and minimum degree at least $$\frac{p}{2}$$ thenG is hamiltonian. Moon and Moser showed that a balanced bipartite graph (the two partite sets have the same order)G has orderp and minimum degree more than $$\frac{p}{4}$$ thenG is hamiltonian. In this paper, their idea is generalized tok-partite graphs and the following result is obtained: LetG be a balancedk-partite graph with orderp = kn. If the minimum degree $$\delta (G) > \left\{ {\begin{array}{*{20}c} {\left( {\frac{k}{2} - \frac{1}{{k + 1}}} \right)n if k is odd } \\ {\left( {\frac{k}{2} - \frac{2}{{k + 2}}} \right)n if k is even} \\ \end{array} } \right.$$ thenG is hamiltonian. The result is best possible.

Details

ISSN :
14355914 and 09110119
Volume :
11
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Graphs and Combinatorics
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........d88b30aa9373c01eb057292fbf77de05
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01793008