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Auteurs principaux: Bradshaw, Peter, Ge, Zhilin, Stacho, Ladislav
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Publié: 2022
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author Bradshaw, Peter
Ge, Zhilin
Stacho, Ladislav
author_facet Bradshaw, Peter
Ge, Zhilin
Stacho, Ladislav
contents In this paper, we consider covering graphs obtained by lifting a tree with a loop at each vertex as a voltage graph over a cyclic group. We generalize a tool of Hell, Nishiyama, and Stacho, known as the billiard strategy, for constructing Hamiltonian cycles in the covering graphs of paths. We show that our extended tool can be used to provide new sufficient conditions for the Hamiltonicity of covering graphs of trees that are similar to those of Batagelj and Pisanski and of Hell, Nishiyama, and Stacho. Next, we focus specifically on covering graphs obtained from trees lifted as voltage graphs over cyclic groups $\mathbb Z_p$ of large prime order $p$. We prove that for a given reflexive tree $T$ whose edge labels are assigned uniformly at random from a finite set, the corresponding lift is almost surely Hamiltonian for a large enough prime-ordered cyclic group $\mathbb Z_p$. Finally, we show that if a reflexive tree $T$ is lifted over a group $\mathbb Z_p$ of a large prime order, then for any assignment of nonzero elements of $\mathbb Z_p$ to the edges of $T$, the corresponding cover of $T$ has a large circumference.
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spellingShingle Hamiltonicity of covering graphs of trees
Bradshaw, Peter
Ge, Zhilin
Stacho, Ladislav
Combinatorics
In this paper, we consider covering graphs obtained by lifting a tree with a loop at each vertex as a voltage graph over a cyclic group. We generalize a tool of Hell, Nishiyama, and Stacho, known as the billiard strategy, for constructing Hamiltonian cycles in the covering graphs of paths. We show that our extended tool can be used to provide new sufficient conditions for the Hamiltonicity of covering graphs of trees that are similar to those of Batagelj and Pisanski and of Hell, Nishiyama, and Stacho. Next, we focus specifically on covering graphs obtained from trees lifted as voltage graphs over cyclic groups $\mathbb Z_p$ of large prime order $p$. We prove that for a given reflexive tree $T$ whose edge labels are assigned uniformly at random from a finite set, the corresponding lift is almost surely Hamiltonian for a large enough prime-ordered cyclic group $\mathbb Z_p$. Finally, we show that if a reflexive tree $T$ is lifted over a group $\mathbb Z_p$ of a large prime order, then for any assignment of nonzero elements of $\mathbb Z_p$ to the edges of $T$, the corresponding cover of $T$ has a large circumference.
title Hamiltonicity of covering graphs of trees
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.05583