Hamilton cycles in a family of graphs which includes the generalized Petersen graphs

Matthew Dean1
1Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Computing, Department of Mathematics, The University of Queensland, Queensland 4072, AUSTRALIA

Abstract

It is well known that the Petersen graph does not contain a Hamilton cycle. In \(1983\), Alspach completely determined which Generalized Petersen graphs are Hamiltonian \([1]\). In this paper, we define a larger class of graphs which includes the Generalized Petersen graphs as a special case, and determine which graphs in this larger class are Hamiltonian, and which are \(1\)-factorable. We call this larger class spoked Cayley graphs.