Copyright © 2012 Zh. G. Nikoghosyan. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

We prove that if is a 2-connect graph of size (the number of edges) and minimum degree with , where when and when , then each longest cycle in is a dominating cycle. The exact analog of this theorem for Hamilton cycles follows easily from two known results according to Dirac and Nash-Williams: each graph with is hamiltonian. Both results are sharp in all respects.