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This paper aims to survey Hamiltonicity of graphs on surfaces, including stronger (e.g. Hamiltonian-connectedness) and weaker (e.g. containing Hamiltonian paths and spanning trees with certain conditions) properties. Toughness and scattering number conditions are necessary conditions for graphs to have such properties. Since every k-connected graph on a surface \(F^2\) satisfies some toughness and scattering number condition, we can expect that “every k-connected graph on a surface \(F^2\) satisfies the property \({ \mathcal {P}}\)”. We explain which triple \((k, F^2, { \mathcal {P}})\) makes the statement true from the viewpoint of toughness and scattering number of graphs.
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Their proof depends on the Four Color Theorem, which was still unsolved at that time. Without using the Four Color Theorem, the same result was proven by Goodey and Rosenfeld [48] with additional conditions and then finally, by Fleischner [40]. The most general result in this direction is the following due to Paulraja [82]; any 3-connected cubic graph is prism-Hamiltonian.
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Ding [31] gave a complete structure of \(K_{2,t}\)-minor-free graphs.
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Ozeki, K. (2021). Hamiltonicity of Graphs on Surfaces in Terms of Toughness and Scattering Number – A Survey. In: Akiyama, J., Marcelo, R.M., Ruiz, MJ.P., Uno, Y. (eds) Discrete and Computational Geometry, Graphs, and Games. JCDCGGG 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13034. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90048-9_7
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