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  • Article
  • Open Access
2,028 Views
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11 June 2023

In this paper, we mainly consider the Hamiltonian indices of three classes of graphs obtained from Petersen graph, that is, the minimum integer m of m-time iterated line graph Lm(G) of these three classes of graphs such that Lm(G) is Hamiltonian. We...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
605 Views
12 Pages

23 February 2025

Given a graph G = (V, E), the edge set can be partitioned into k dimensions, for a positive integer k. The set of all i-dimensional edges of G is a subset of E(G) denoted by Ei. A Hamiltonian cycle C on G contains all vertices on G. Let Ei(C) = E(C)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,407 Views
12 Pages

11 December 2024

Let G=(V,E) be a graph. The first Zagreb index of a graph G is defined as ∑u∈VdG2(u), where dG(u) is the degree of vertex u in G. A graph G is called Hamiltonian (resp. traceable) if G has a cycle (resp. path) containing all the vertices of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,693 Views
11 Pages

Hamiltonian Cycles in Cayley Graphs of Gyrogroups

  • Rasimate Maungchang,
  • Charawi Detphumi,
  • Prathomjit Khachorncharoenkul and
  • Teerapong Suksumran

11 April 2022

In this study, we investigate Hamiltonian cycles in the right-Cayley graphs of gyrogroups. More specifically, we give a gyrogroup version of the factor group lemma and show that some right-Cayley graphs of certain gyrogroups are Hamiltonian.

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,051 Views
27 Pages

Counting Hamiltonian Cycles in 2-Tiled Graphs

  • Alen Vegi Kalamar,
  • Tadej Žerak and
  • Drago Bokal

23 March 2021

In 1930, Kuratowski showed that K3,3 and K5 are the only two minor-minimal nonplanar graphs. Robertson and Seymour extended finiteness of the set of forbidden minors for any surface. Širáň and Kochol showed that there are infinitely many k-crossing-c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,610 Views
23 Pages

13 February 2022

A graph is called Hamiltonian connected if it contains a Hamiltonian path between any two distinct vertices. In the past, we proved the Hamiltonian path and cycle problems for general supergrid graphs to be NP-complete. However, they are still open f...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
738 Views
15 Pages

8 September 2025

The first Zagreb index of a graph G is defined as the sum of the squares of the degrees of all the vertices in G. The Laplacian spectral radius of a graph G is defined as the largest eigenvalue of the Laplacian matrix of the graph G. In this paper, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,088 Views
14 Pages

The One-Fault Dimension-Balanced Hamiltonian Problem in Toroidal Mesh Graphs

  • Justie Su-Tzu Juan,
  • Hao-Cheng Ciou and
  • Meng-Jyun Lin

9 January 2025

Finding a Hamiltonian cycle in a graph G = (V, E) is a well-known problem. The challenge of finding a Hamiltonian cycle that avoids these faults when faulty vertices or edges are present has been extensively studied. When the edge set of G is partiti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
354 Views
17 Pages

15 December 2025

Hamiltonian cycle problems play a central role in graph theory and have wide-ranging applications in network-on-chip architectures, interconnection networks, and large-scale parallel systems. When a network contains faulty nodes or faulty links, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,628 Views
11 Pages

25 May 2022

The forgotten topological index of a (molecule) graph is the sum of cubes of all its vertex degrees, which plays a significant role in measuring the branching of the carbon atom skeleton. It is meaningful and difficult to explore sufficient condition...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,094 Views
13 Pages

2 January 2023

The method of the optimal movement trajectory construction in the terrain patrolling tasks is proposed. The method is based on the search of the Hamiltonian circuit on the graph of the terrain map and allows automatic construction of the optimal clos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,748 Views
14 Pages

Cayley Graphs Defined by Systems of Equations

  • Fuyuan Yang,
  • Qiang Sun,
  • Hongbo Zhou and
  • Chao Zhang

25 February 2022

Let R be a finite ring. In this paper, we mainly explore the conditions to ensure the graph BΓn defined by a system of equations {fi|i=2,…,n} to be a Cayley graph or a Hamiltonian graph. More precisely, we prove that BΓn is a Cayle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,246 Views
25 Pages

Tangled Cord of FTTM4

  • Noorsufia Abd Shukor,
  • Tahir Ahmad,
  • Mujahid Abdullahi,
  • Amidora Idris and
  • Siti Rahmah Awang

7 June 2023

Fuzzy Topological Topographic Mapping (FTTM) is a mathematical model that consists of a set of homeomorphic topological spaces designed to solve the neuro magnetic inverse problem. A sequence of FTTM, denoted as FTTMn, is an extension of FTTM that is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,724 Views
19 Pages

31 March 2024

We analyzed a special class of graph traversal problems, where the distances are stochastic, and the agent is restricted to take a limited range in one go. We showed that both constrained shortest Hamiltonian pathfinding problems and disassembly line...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,324 Views
29 Pages

2 December 2022

Description of interacting spin systems relies on understanding the spectral properties of the corresponding spin Hamiltonians. However, the eigenvalue problems arising here lead to algebraic problems too complex to be analytically tractable. This is...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,081 Views
19 Pages

15 September 2025

Aperiodic tessellations of polykite unitiles, such as hats and turtles, and the recently introduced hares, red squirrels, and gray squirrels, have attracted significant interest due to their structural and combinatorial properties. Our primary object...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,015 Views
26 Pages

27 December 2024

In this paper, we explore the connection between sensor networks and graph theory. Sensor networks represent distributed systems of interconnected devices that collect and transmit data, while graph theory provides a robust framework for modeling and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,464 Views
24 Pages

25 January 2013

A graph is said to be an intersection graph if there is a set of objects such that each vertex corresponds to an object and two vertices are adjacent if and only if the corresponding objects have a nonempty intersection. There are several natural gra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,083 Views
26 Pages

The Longest (s, t)-Path Problem on O-Shaped Supergrid Graphs

  • Fatemeh Keshavarz-Kohjerdi and
  • Ruo-Wei Hung

15 June 2023

The longest (s,t)-path problem on supergrid graphs is known to be NP-complete. However, the complexity of this problem on supergrid graphs with or without holes is still unknown.In the past, we presented linear-time algorithms for solving the longest...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,826 Views
15 Pages

Hamiltonicity of Token Graphs of Some Join Graphs

  • Luis Enrique Adame,
  • Luis Manuel Rivera and
  • Ana Laura Trujillo-Negrete

16 June 2021

Let G be a simple graph of order n with vertex set V(G) and edge set E(G), and let k be an integer such that 1≤k≤n−1. The k-token graph G{k} of G is the graph whose vertices are the k-subsets of V(G), where two vertices A and B are adjacent in G{k} w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,359 Views
17 Pages

17 December 2020

Short or moderate-length non-binary low-density parity-check (NB-LDPC) codes have the potential applications in future low latency and high-reliability communication thanks to the strong error correction capability and parallel decoding. Because of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,209 Views
12 Pages

Tightness of Harary Graphs

  • Abolfazl Javan,
  • Ali Moeini and
  • Mohammad Shekaramiz

17 September 2024

In the design of real-world networks, researchers evaluate various structural parameters to assess vulnerability, including connectivity, toughness, and tenacity. Recently, the tightness metric has emerged as a potentially superior vulnerability meas...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
518 Views
11 Pages

Computing the Graph-Changing Dynamics of Loop Quantum Gravity

  • Thiago L. M. Guedes,
  • Guillermo A. Mena Marugán,
  • Francesca Vidotto and
  • Markus Müller

24 November 2025

In loop quantum gravity (LQG), states of the gravitational field are represented by labeled graphs called spin networks. Their dynamics can be described by a Hamiltonian constraint, which acts on the spin network states, modifying both spins and grap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,009 Views
24 Pages

13 April 2022

This paper studies the Hamiltonian cycle problem (HCP) and the traveling salesman problem (TSP) on D-Wave quantum systems. Motivated by the fact that most libraries present their benchmark instances in terms of adjacency matrices, we develop a novel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,444 Views
17 Pages

26 March 2019

We consider the problem of measuring the similarity between two graphs using continuous-time quantum walks and comparing their time-evolution by means of the quantum Jensen-Shannon divergence. Contrary to previous works that focused solely on undirec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,422 Views
15 Pages

Properties of Commuting Graphs over Semidihedral Groups

  • Tao Cheng,
  • Matthias Dehmer,
  • Frank Emmert-Streib,
  • Yongtao Li and
  • Weijun Liu

8 January 2021

This paper considers commuting graphs over the semidihedral group SD8n. We compute their eigenvalues and obtain that these commuting graphs are not hyperenergetic for odd n≥15 or even n≥2. We further compute the Laplacian spectrum, the Laplacia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,471 Views
14 Pages

20 October 2024

This research is focused on evolutionary algorithms, with genetic and memetic algorithms discussed in more detail. A graph theory problem related to finding a minimal Hamiltonian cycle in a complete undirected graph (Travelling Salesman Problem&mdash...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,152 Views
12 Pages

Path Embeddings with Prescribed Edge in the Balanced Hypercube Network

  • Dan Chen,
  • Zhongzhou Lu,
  • Zebang Shen,
  • Gaofeng Zhang,
  • Chong Chen and
  • Qingguo Zhou

26 May 2017

The balanced hypercube network, which is a novel interconnection network for parallel computation and data processing, is a newly-invented variant of the hypercube. The particular feature of the balanced hypercube is that each processor has its own b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,872 Views
18 Pages

An Image Encryption Algorithm Based on Random Hamiltonian Path

  • Wei Zhang,
  • Shuwen Wang,
  • Weijie Han,
  • Hai Yu and
  • Zhiliang Zhu

6 January 2020

In graph theory, Hamiltonian path refers to the path that visits each vertex exactly once. In this paper, we designed a method to generate random Hamiltonian path within digital images, which is equivalent to permutation in image encryption. By these...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,314 Views
13 Pages

An Ideal-Based Dot Total Graph of a Commutative Ring

  • Mohammad Ashraf,
  • Jaber H. Asalool,
  • Abdulaziz M. Alanazi and
  • Ahmed Alamer

29 November 2021

In this paper, we introduce and investigate an ideal-based dot total graph of commutative ring R with nonzero unity. We show that this graph is connected and has a small diameter of at most two. Furthermore, its vertex set is divided into three disjo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,442 Views
18 Pages

A New Approach to Determine the Minimal Polynomials of Binary Modified de Bruijn Sequences

  • Musthofa,
  • Indah Emilia Wijayanti,
  • Diah Junia Eksi Palupi and
  • Martianus Frederic Ezerman

25 July 2022

A binary modified de Bruijn sequence is an infinite and periodic binary sequence derived by removing a zero from the longest run of zeros in a binary de Bruijn sequence. The minimal polynomial of the modified sequence is its unique least-degree chara...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,122 Views
15 Pages

Pancyclicity of the n-Generalized Prism over Skirted Graphs

  • Artchariya Muaengwaeng,
  • Ratinan Boonklurb and
  • Sirirat Singhun

14 April 2022

A side skirt is a planar rooted tree T, T≠P2, where the root of T is a vertex of degree at least two, and all other vertices except the leaves are of degree at least three. A reduced Halin graph or a skirted graph is a plane graph G=T∪P, where...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,456 Views
14 Pages

16 August 2017

To support doubly fed wind turbine (DFWT) groups in offshore wind farms, this paper proposes a distributed coordinated control based on the Hamiltonian energy theory. This strategy provides global stability to closed-loop systems and facilitates outp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,211 Views
14 Pages

19 August 2022

In 2014, some scholars showed that every 2-connected claw-free graph G with independence number α(G)≤3 is Hamiltonian with one exception of family of graphs. If a nontrivial path contains only internal vertices of degree two and end vertices...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,182 Views
29 Pages

6 May 2024

Cayley and nilpotent graphs arise from the interaction between graph theory and algebra and are used to visualize the structures of some algebraic objects as groups and commutative rings. On the other hand, Green and Schroll introduced Brauer graph a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,661 Views
8 Pages

Improving Quantum Search on Simple Graphs by Pretty Good Structured Oracles

  • Matteo G. A. Paris,
  • Claudia Benedetti and
  • Stefano Olivares

7 January 2021

Quantum search algorithms provide a way to speed up combinatorial search, and have found several applications in modern quantum technology. In particular, spatial search on graphs, based on continuous-time quantum walks (CTQW), represents a promising...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
9,126 Views
31 Pages

Ordering of Trotterization: Impact on Errors in Quantum Simulation of Electronic Structure

  • Andrew Tranter,
  • Peter J. Love,
  • Florian Mintert,
  • Nathan Wiebe and
  • Peter V. Coveney

13 December 2019

Trotter–Suzuki decompositions are frequently used in the quantum simulation of quantum chemistry. They transform the evolution operator into a form implementable on a quantum device, while incurring an error—the Trotter error. The Trotter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,322 Views
16 Pages

The interconnection network represents an interconnected structure of processors that strongly determines the performance quality of a parallel processing system. The shuffle-exchange permutation (SEP) network with three degrees has high fault tolera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,440 Views
15 Pages

26 April 2024

In practical applications, the temporal completeness of knowledge graphs is of great importance. However, previous studies have mostly focused on static knowledge graphs, generally neglecting the dynamic evolutionary properties of facts. Moreover, th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,786 Views
19 Pages

Domination and Independent Domination in Extended Supergrid Graphs

  • Jong-Shin Chen,
  • Ruo-Wei Hung,
  • Fatemeh Keshavarz-Kohjerdi and
  • Yung-Fa Huang

30 October 2022

Supergrid graphs are derived by computing stitch paths for computerized embroidery machines. In the past, we have studied the Hamiltonian-related properties of supergrid graphs and their subclasses of graphs. In this paper, we propose a generalized g...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,434 Views
20 Pages

15 September 2025

We propose a dynamic extension of the Petford–Welsh coloring algorithm that estimates the chromatic number of a graph without requiring k as an input. The basic algorithm is based on the model that is closely related to the Boltzmann machines t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,744 Views
9 Pages

7 September 2023

One of the important issues in evaluating an interconnection network is to study the hamiltonian cycle embedding problems. A graph G is spanning k-edge-cyclable if for any k independent edges e1,e2,…,ek of G, there exist k vertex-disjoint cycl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,651 Views
13 Pages

17 December 2023

A graph with n vertices is called an n-graph. A spanning tree with at most k leaves is referred to as a spanning k-ended tree. Spanning k-ended trees are important in various fields such as network design, graph theory, and communication networks. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,531 Views
19 Pages

28 April 2024

The Sustainable Time-Dependent Cheapest Path Problem (STDCPP) entails locating a Hamiltonian path that covers all of the graph’s vertices at the lowest possible total sustainability cost. The issue is inspired by actual city logistics, where it...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,013 Views
12 Pages

Dynamics on Binary Relations over Topological Spaces

  • Chung-Chuan Chen,
  • J. Alberto Conejero,
  • Marko Kostić and
  • Marina Murillo-Arcila

11 June 2018

The existence of chaos and the quest of dense orbits have been recently considered for dynamical systems given by multivalued linear operators. We consider the notions of topological transitivity, topologically mixing property, hypercyclicity, period...

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