On traceability of claw-o_{-1}-heavy graphs

Abstract

A graph is called traceable if it contains a Hamilton path, i.e., a path passing through all its vertices. Let $G$ be a graph on $n$ vertices. $G$ is called claw-$o_{-1}$-heavy if every induced claw ($K_{1,3}$) of $G$ has a pair of nonadjacent vertices with degree sum at least $n-1$ in $G$. In this paper we show that a claw-$o_{-1}$-heavy graph $G$ is traceable if we impose certain additional conditions on $G$ involving forbidden induced subgraphs.

12 pages, 2 figures