Reduce the
UNDIRECTED HAMILTONIAN CIRCUIT problem to the
UNDIRECTED HAMILTONIAN PATH problem.
These problems are defined as follows:
- UNDIRECTED HAMILTONIAN CIRCUIT: given an undirected graph G, is
there a cycle that visits each node of G exactly once? In other words, is it
possible to order the nodes of G such that there is an edge between each 2
contiguous nodes and an edge between the last and the first nodes?
More formally, this problem can be defined as the following set:
{G=⟨V,E⟩∣V={n1,…,nk}∧∀i∈{1,…,k}:{ni,n(i mod k)+1}∈E}
- UNDIRECTED HAMILTONIAN PATH: given an undirected graph G, is there a
path that visits each node of G exactly once? In other words, is it possible
to order the nodes of G such that there is an edge between each 2
contiguous nodes?
More formally, this problem can be defined as the following set:
{G=⟨V,E⟩∣V={n1,…,nk}∧∀i∈{1,…,k−1}:{ni,ni+1}∈E}
The input and output of the reduction conform to the following data types:
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in: struct {
numnodes: int
edges: array of array [2] of int
adjacents: array of array of int
adjacencymatrix: array of array of int
}
The input is an undirected graph. The graph is given by means of four different
kinds of information: the number of nodes in.numnodes, the list of edges
in.edges, for each node the list of its adjacent nodes
in.adjacents, and the adjacency matrix in.adjacencymatrix. The
nodes are integers between 1 and in.numnodes, and thus, the 0’th
position of in.adjacents does not contain useful data and should be
ignored; for any other position p, in.adjacents[p] is the list of
nodes adjacent to p. For the same reason, the 0’th row and column of
in.adjacencymatrix do not contain useful data and should be ignored; for
any other row r and column c, in.adjacencymatrix[r][c] is 0 when
there is no edge between the nodes r and c, and 1 otherwise.
Note: The input graph has at least 2 nodes, no repeated edges, nor self-loop edges.
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out: struct {
edges: array of array [2] of string
nodes: array of string
}
The output is an undirected graph, which is described with the list of edges
out.edges and with the list of nodes out.nodes. An edge is a pair
of nodes, and each node is represented by either an integer or a string. The
list of nodes out.nodes is optional, and contains nodes of the graph,
that may or may not appear in the list of edges. This list of nodes could be
useful, for example, for including the nodes that are not connected to any
other node, if this is considered necessary.
Note: If the output graph has no nodes or just one node, it is considered that it has
a path. Repeated edges and self-loop edges are ignored.