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Cameron Cubic Hamiltonian Graphs


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The Cameron cubic Hamiltonian graphs are a family of cubic planar Hamiltonian graphs having exactly 3 Hamiltonian cycles that were constructed by Kathleen Cameron (Cameron 2001; Knuth 2025, Problem 77). The order-n Cameron cubic Hamiltonian graph has 8n+2 vertices. The first few are illustrated above.

Since they are cubic and contain exactly 3 Hamiltonian cycles, they are automatically perfectly Hamiltonian. The n=1 and n=2 cases are Halin graphs. For n>1, the graphs have exactly two graph automorphisms (Knuth 2025).

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For even n, each of the three Hamiltonian cycles gives a bilaterally symmetric LCF embedding. "Nice" LCF embeddings are shown above for n=1 to 5.

These graphs will be implemented in a future version of the Wolfram Language as GraphData[{"Cameron", n]}.

They should not be confused with Cameron Graph, the 231-vertex strongly regular graph.


See also

Cameron Graph, Hamiltonian Cycle, Perfectly Hamiltonian Graph

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References

Cameron, K. "Thomason's Algorithm for Finding a Second Hamiltonian Circuit Through a Given Edge in a Cubic Graph Is Exponential on Krawczyk's Graphs." Disc. Math. 235, 69-77, 2001.Knuth, D. E. "Hamiltonian Paths and Cycles." Volume 4, Pre-Fascicle 8A in The Art of Computer Programming. Draft. Aug. 19, 2025. https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/fasc8a.pdf.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Cameron Cubic Hamiltonian Graphs." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/CameronCubicHamiltonianGraphs.html

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