Fleischner (2014) considered uniquely hamiltonian graphsUniquely Hamiltonian Graph of minimum vertex degree 4. In particular, he constructed uniquely hamiltonian graphs in which every vertex has degree 4 or 14. His smallest examples with connectivity 2 and 3 have 338 and 408 vertices, respectively (Fleischner 2014, Goedgebeur et al. 2019).
The 338-vertex graph begins with a graph on 15 vertices and 24 edges that has two Hamiltonian
cycles, then builds up a series of graphs
,
, and
in which each
has
vertices,
edges, and two Hamiltonian
cycles. He then removes degree-3 edges to produce
and
and applies another procedure to remove
(Knuth 2025, p. 17 and Exercise 120). The culmination
of this process is a graph
on 338 vertices having a unique hamiltonian cycle.
The graph
will be implemented in a future version of the Wolfram
Language as GraphData["FleischnerGraph15"].
A 30-vertex uniquely Hamiltonian graph used in the proof that there are infinitely
many 3-connected uniquely hamiltonian graphs of minimum degree 4 (Fleischner 2014)
will be implemented in a future version of the Wolfram
Language as GraphData["FleischnerGraph30"].