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Hypohamiltonian graph

In the mathematical field of graph theory, a graph G is said to be hypohamiltonian if G itself does not have a Hamiltonian cycle but every graph formed by removing a single vertex from G is Hamiltonian. Hypohamiltonian graphs were first studied by . cites and as additional early papers on the subject; another early work is by . sums up much of the research in this area with the following sentence: “The articles dealing with those graphs ... usually exhibit new classes of hypohamiltonian or hypotraceable graphs showing that for certain orders n such graphs indeed exist or that they possess strange and unexpected properties.” Hypohamiltonian graphs arise in integer programming solutions to the traveling salesman problem: certain kinds of hypohamiltonian graphs define facets of the traveling salesman polytope, a shape defined as the convex hull of the set of possible solutions to the traveling salesman problem, and these facets may be used in cutting-plane methods for solving the problem. observes that the computational complexity of determining whether a graph is hypohamiltonian, although unknown, is likely to be high, making it difficult to find facets of these types except for those defined by small hypohamiltonian graphs; fortunately, the smallest graphs lead to the strongest inequalities for this application. Concepts closely related to hypohamiltonicity have also been used by to measure the fault tolerance of network topologies for parallel computing. Every hypohamiltonian graph must be 3-vertex-connected, as the removal of any two vertices leaves a Hamiltonian path, which is connected. There exist n-vertex hypohamiltonian graphs in which the maximum degree is n/2, and in which there are approximately n2/4 edges. conjectured that every hypohamiltonian graph has girth 5 or more, but this was disproved by , who found examples with girth 3 and 4. For some time it was unknown whether a hypohamiltonian graph could be planar, but several examples are now known, the smallest of which has 40 vertices.

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