Open AccessA note on Barnette's Conjecture
Author(s) -
Jochen Harant
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
discussiones mathematicae graph theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.476
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 2083-5892
pISSN - 1234-3099
DOI - 10.7151/dmgt.1643
Subject(s) - mathematics , conjecture , combinatorics
Barnette conjectured that each planar, bipartite, cubic, and 3-connected graph is hamiltonian. We prove that this conjecture is equivalent to the statement that there is a constant c > 0 such that each graph G of this class contains a path on at least c|V (G)| vertices.
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