Tuesday, 3 July 2012

co.combinatorics - Is every matching of the hypercube graph extensible to a Hamiltonian cycle

Given that Qd is the hypercube graph of dimension d then it is a known fact (not so trivial to prove though) that given a perfect matching M of Qd (dgeq2) it is possible to find another perfect matching N of Qd such that McupN is a Hamiltonian cycle in Qd.



The question now is - given a (non necessarily perfect) matching M of Qd (dgeq2) is it possible to find a set of edges N such that McupN is a Hamiltonian cycle in Qd.



The statement is proven to be true for din2,3,4.

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