Spectral radius and Hamiltonian properties of graphs, II

Abstract

In this paper, we first present spectral conditions for the existence of $C_{n-1}$ in graphs (2-connected graphs) of order $n$, which are motivated by a conjecture of Erdős. Then we prove spectral conditions for the existence of Hamilton cycles in balanced bipartite graphs. This result presents a spectral analog of Moon-Moser's theorem on Hamilton cycles in balanced bipartite graphs, and extends a previous theorem due to Li and the second author for $n$ sufficiently large. We conclude this paper with two problems on tight spectral conditions for the existence of long cycles of given lengths.

17 pages, Linear and Multilinear Algebra, to appear