are all cubic graphs almost Hamiltonian?
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I apologize for my ignorance in advance as I am not very familiar with graph theory so I am likely not using the correct jargon. If someone could correct me to the correct buzzword in the literature, I would be thrilled.
Call a graph $G$ $n$-almost-Hamiltonian if there is a closed walk in $G$ that visits every vertex of $G$ exactly $n$-times. So a Hamiltonian graph is $n$-almost-Hamiltonian for all $n$. Are all cubic graphs $n$-almost-Hamiltonian for some sufficiently large $n$?
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I apologize for my ignorance in advance as I am not very familiar with graph theory so I am likely not using the correct jargon. If someone could correct me to the correct buzzword in the literature, I would be thrilled.
Call a graph $G$ $n$-almost-Hamiltonian if there is a closed walk in $G$ that visits every vertex of $G$ exactly $n$-times. So a Hamiltonian graph is $n$-almost-Hamiltonian for all $n$. Are all cubic graphs $n$-almost-Hamiltonian for some sufficiently large $n$?
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I apologize for my ignorance in advance as I am not very familiar with graph theory so I am likely not using the correct jargon. If someone could correct me to the correct buzzword in the literature, I would be thrilled.
Call a graph $G$ $n$-almost-Hamiltonian if there is a closed walk in $G$ that visits every vertex of $G$ exactly $n$-times. So a Hamiltonian graph is $n$-almost-Hamiltonian for all $n$. Are all cubic graphs $n$-almost-Hamiltonian for some sufficiently large $n$?
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I apologize for my ignorance in advance as I am not very familiar with graph theory so I am likely not using the correct jargon. If someone could correct me to the correct buzzword in the literature, I would be thrilled.
Call a graph $G$ $n$-almost-Hamiltonian if there is a closed walk in $G$ that visits every vertex of $G$ exactly $n$-times. So a Hamiltonian graph is $n$-almost-Hamiltonian for all $n$. Are all cubic graphs $n$-almost-Hamiltonian for some sufficiently large $n$?
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Yes, every connected cubic graph is 3-almost-Hamiltonian.
Replace each edge by two parallel edges then follow an Eulerian circuit.
In the case of a bridgeless cubic graph, you can add a perfect matching instead of doubling each edge, which shows they are 2-almost-Hamiltonian.
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Yes, every connected cubic graph is 3-almost-Hamiltonian.
Replace each edge by two parallel edges then follow an Eulerian circuit.
In the case of a bridgeless cubic graph, you can add a perfect matching instead of doubling each edge, which shows they are 2-almost-Hamiltonian.
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Yes, every connected cubic graph is 3-almost-Hamiltonian.
Replace each edge by two parallel edges then follow an Eulerian circuit.
In the case of a bridgeless cubic graph, you can add a perfect matching instead of doubling each edge, which shows they are 2-almost-Hamiltonian.
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Yes, every connected cubic graph is 3-almost-Hamiltonian.
Replace each edge by two parallel edges then follow an Eulerian circuit.
In the case of a bridgeless cubic graph, you can add a perfect matching instead of doubling each edge, which shows they are 2-almost-Hamiltonian.
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Yes, every connected cubic graph is 3-almost-Hamiltonian.
Replace each edge by two parallel edges then follow an Eulerian circuit.
In the case of a bridgeless cubic graph, you can add a perfect matching instead of doubling each edge, which shows they are 2-almost-Hamiltonian.
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