Jackson's Tutte-cycle conjecture for 2-connected claw-free graphs

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A graph is claw-free if it has no induced subgraph isomorphic to K1,3K_{1,3}. A graph is 2-connected if it is connected and remains connected after deleting any one vertex. A Tutte cycle is a cycle CC such that every component of G−V(C)G-V(C) has at most three neighbours on CC.

Jackson's conjecture. Every 22-connected claw-free graph has a Tutte cycle.

This is presented as an equivalent formulation of Thomassen's open conjecture on Hamilton cycles in 4-connected line graphs. The equivalence is obtained using the closure technique, but the conjecture itself remains unresolved.

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Adam Kabela, Zdeněk Ryjáček and Petr Vrána, “Equivalent formulation of Thomassen's conjecture using Tutte paths in claw-free graphs”, arXiv:1907.08029 (2025).

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