Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-2009

Publication Title

Discrete Mathematics

First Page

288

Last Page

292

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.disc.2007.12.105

Abstract

The Hamiltonian index of a graph G is defined as h ( G ) = min { m : L m ( G ) is Hamiltonian } . In this paper, using the reduction method of Catlin [P.A. Catlin, A reduction method to find spanning Eulerian subgraphs, J. Graph Theory 12 (1988) 29–44], we constructed a graph H ̃ ( m ) ( G ) from G and prove that if h ( G ) ≥ 2 , then h ( G ) = min{ m : H ̃ ( m ) ( G ) has a spanning Eulerian subgraph }.

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