Pancyclicity of the <i>n</i>-Generalized Prism over Skirted Graphs

Abstract

A side skirt is a planar rooted tree T, T≠P2, where the root of T is a vertex of degree at least two, and all other vertices except the leaves are of degree at least three. A reduced Halin graph or a skirted graph is a plane graph G=T∪P, where T is a side skirt, and P is a path connecting the leaves of T in the order determined by the embedding of T. The structure of reduced Halin or skirted graphs contains both symmetry and asymmetry. For n≥2 and Pn=v1v2v3⋯vn as a path of length n−1, we call the Cartesian product of a graph G and a path Pn, the n-generalized prism over a graph G. We have known that the n-generalized prism over a skirted graph is Hamiltonian. To support the Bondy’s metaconjecture from 1971, we show that the n-generalized prism over a skirted graph is pancyclic.

Keywords

• rooted tree
• reduced Halin graph
• skirted graph
• prism
• Cartesian product
• pancyclicity