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Hamiltonicity in balancedk-partite graphs
- Source :
- Graphs and Combinatorics. 11:221-231
- Publication Year :
- 1995
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 1995.
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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