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Forcing Hamiltonicity in locally finite graphs via forbidden induced subgraphs I: Nets and bulls

Karl Heuer, Deniz Sarikaya

Abstract

In a series of papers, of which this is the first, we study sufficient conditions for Hamiltonicity in terms of forbidden induced subgraphs and extend such results to locally finite infinite graphs. For this we use topological circles within the Freudenthal compactification of a locally finite graph as infinite cycles. In this paper we focus on conditions involving claws, nets and bulls as induced subgraphs. We extend Hamiltonicity results for finite claw-free and net-free graphs by Shepherd to locally finite graphs. Moreover, we generalise a classification of finite claw-free and net-free graphs by Shepherd to locally finite ones. Finally, we extend to locally finite graphs a Hamiltonicity result by Ryjáček involving a relaxed condition of being bull-free.
Original languageGerman
JournalJournal of Graph Theory
Volume103
Issue number1
Pages (from-to)23-47
Number of pages25
ISSN1097-0118
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 05.2023

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