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Fleischner Graphs


FleischnerGraphs

The term "Fleischner graphs" is used in this work for graphs arising in the construction by Fleischner (2014) of uniquely Hamiltonian graphs of minimum vertex degree 4. In particular, he constructed uniquely Hamiltonian graphs in which every graph vertex has vertex degree 4 or 14. His smallest examples with vertex connectivity 2 and 3 have 338 and 408 vertices, respectively (Fleischner 2014, Goedgebeur et al. 2019).

The graph with 338 vertices begins with a graph P^-=G_0 on 15 vertices and 24 edges that has two Hamiltonian cycles, then builds up a series of graphs G_1, G_2, and G_3 in which each G_t has 15+14t vertices, 24+34t edges, and two Hamiltonian cycles. He then defines G_4 and G_5 by removing the vertices Y and z of vertex degree 3. A further construction removes y and Z in G_6 (Knuth 2025, p. 17 and Exercise 120). The culmination of this process is a graph G_7 on 338 vertices having a unique Hamiltonian cycle.

Fleischner also constructed a uniquely Hamiltonian graph on 30 vertices used in the proof that infinitely many k-connected graphs with k=3 are uniquely Hamiltonian and have minimum vertex degree 4 (Fleischner 2014).

The Fleischner graphs on 15 and 30 vertices have graph crossing number 2 and 4, respectively.

Some of the graphs discussed above are implemented in the Wolfram Language as GraphData["FleischnerGraph15"], GraphData["FleischnerGraph30"], GraphData["FleischnerGraph57"], GraphData["FleischnerGraph169"], and GraphData["FleischnerGraph338"].


See also

Hamiltonian Cycle, Uniquely Hamiltonian Graph

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References

Fleischner, H. "Uniquely Hamiltonian Graphs of Minimum Degree 4." J. Graph Th. 75, 167-177, 2014.Goedgebeur, J.; Meersman, B.; and Zamfirescu, C. T. "Graphs with Few Hamiltonian Cycles." 15 Jul 2019. https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05650.House of Graphs. Fleischner Graphs. Fleischner Graph 15.Knuth, D. E. "Hamiltonian Paths and Cycles." Pre-Fascicle 8A of The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 4. Draft, p. 17 and Exercise 120, Dec. 4, 2025. https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/fasc8a.pdf.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Fleischner Graphs." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/FleischnerGraphs.html

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