Hendry's cycle-extendibility conjecture for Hamiltonian chordal graphs

Let GG be a simple, finite, connected, undirected graph. A graph is Hamiltonian if it contains a cycle containing every vertex, and it is chordal if it contains no induced cycle of length at least 44. A cycle CC is cycle extendible if, whenever CC is non-Hamiltonian, there is a cycle CC' with V(C)V(C)V(C)\subset V(C') and V(C)=V(C)+1|V(C')|=|V(C)|+1. A graph is fully cycle extendible if it is cycle extendible and every vertex lies in a triangle.

Hendry's conjecture. Every Hamiltonian chordal graph is fully cycle extendible.

The conjecture was disproved; in particular, the paper studies counterexamples under stronger graph-theoretic conditions, including strong chordality and high connectivity.

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Primary source

Manuel Lafond, Ben Seamone and Rezvan Sherkati, “Further results on Hendry's Conjecture”, arXiv:2007.07464 (2022).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2013–2020). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1311.5863.

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