The induced subgraph K_2_,_3 in a non-Hamiltonian graphs

Abstract

A graph $\text{G}$ is a tuple $(\text{V},\text{E})$, where $\text{V}$ is the vertex set, $\text{E}$ is the edge set. A reduced graph is a graph of deleting non-Hamiltonian edges and smoothing out the redundant vertices of degree 2 on an edge except for leaving only one vertex of degree 2. We denote by I a set of cycles only jointed by inside vertices. |I| is the number of sets I in a graph. We use a norm graph to denote a reduced graph of |I|=1. $\text{g}$ is a subgraph obtained by deleting all removable cycles from a basis of a norm graph. In this paper, we show that a norm graph $\text{G}$ is non-Hamiltonian, if and only if, $\text{g}$ and K_2_,_3 are homeomorphic.

8 pages, 4 figures