Matthews–Sumner conjecture on Hamilton cycles in 4-connected claw-free graphs

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Let GG be a graph. It is claw-free if it has no induced subgraph isomorphic to a claw, and GG is 4-connected if deleting fewer than four vertices does not disconnect it. Matthews–Sumner conjecture. Every 44-connected, claw-free graph has a Hamiltonian cycle.

This is a central conjecture on Hamiltonicity in sparse graphs. The supplied paper describes it as a famous open problem and discusses it as motivation for a bipartite analogue.

References

Primary source

Alexey Pokrovskiy and Xiaoan Yang, “Hamiltonicity and structure of connected biclaw-free graphs”, arXiv:2507.05836 (2025).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2010–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1009.3754.

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