Hamiltonian properties in generalized lexicographic products

Abstract

The lexicographic product $G[H]$ of two graphs $G$ and $H$ is obtained from $G$ by replacing each vertex with a copy of $H$ and adding all edges between any pair of copies corresponding to adjacent vertices of $G$. We consider also the generalized lexicographic product such that we replace each vertex of $G$ with arbitrary graph on the same number of vertices. We present sufficient and necessary conditions for traceability, hamiltonicity and hamiltonian connectivity of $G[H]$ if $G$ is a path and hence we improved and extended results in M. Kriesell, A Note on Hamiltonian Cycles in Lexicographical Products.

19 pages, 2 figures