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Updating the Hamiltonian problem – a survey. (English) Zbl 0746.05039
This paper is a survey of the results on Hamiltonian paths and cycles in undirected graphs obtained since the late 1970s. Dirac’s classical theorem has many generalizations involving degrees, neighborhood intersection, distance, toughness and other parameters. Also, results on random graphs, forbidden subgraphs, algorithms, the number of Hamiltonian cycles, Hamiltonian decompositions, and highly symmetric graphs are reviewed.

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 05C45 Eulerian and Hamiltonian graphs 05-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to combinatorics 05C80 Random graphs (graph-theoretic aspects) 05C38 Paths and cycles 05C70 Edge subsets with special properties (factorization, matching, partitioning, covering and packing, etc.)
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