Hamilton cycle

1.1 Hamilton cycle

HAMILTON-CYCLE. Given an undirected graph G = (V, E), does there exist a
cycle Γ that visits every node exactly once?

一个有解的图，一个没有解的图如下：

2.1 Directed Hamilton cycle reduces to Hamilton cycle

DIRECTED-HAMILTON-CYCLE. Given a directed graph G = (V, E), does there exist
a directed cycle Γ that visits every node exactly once?

关于有向哈密尔顿圈问题可以规约到哈密尔顿问题证明如下(DIRECTED-HAMILTON-CYCLE ≤ P HAMILTON-CYCLE.)：

Pf. Given a directed graph G = (V, E), construct a graph Gʹ with 3n nodes.

Lemma. G has a directed Hamilton cycle iff Gʹ has a Hamilton cycle.

2.1.1 证明

Pf. ⇒

• Suppose G has a directed Hamilton cycle Γ.
• Then Gʹ has an undirected Hamilton cycle (same order).

Pf. ⇐

• Suppose Gʹ has an undirected Hamilton cycle Γʹ.
• Γʹ must visit nodes in Gʹ using one of following two orders:
  …, black, white, blue, black, white, blue, black, white, blue, …
  …, black, blue, white, black, blue, white, black, blue, white, …
• Black nodes in Γʹ comprise either a directed Hamilton cycle Γ in G,
  or reverse of one.

3.1 3-satisfiability reduces to directed Hamilton cycle

Construction. Given 3-SAT instance Φ with n variables xi and k clauses.

• Construct G to have 2^n Hamilton cycles.
• Intuition: traverse path i from left to right ⇔ set variable xi = true.

一个3元可满足性问题包含n个变量以及k个子模块，我们构造出一个2^n结点个数的图G。存在任意一个从左到右的路径<->xi=true. 右到左<->xi=false.

A problem:

3.1.1 3-satisfiability reduces to directed Hamilton cycle

Construction. Given 3-SAT instance Φ with n variables xi and k clauses.

• For each clause: add a node and 2 edges per literal.

首先我们的构造方法是这样的：给你一个文法式n个变量k个子模块。对于每一个子模块添加一个结点两条边。
可以看到图中的子模块Cj和Ck分别表示的是： 如果xi是从右到左流入Ck的那么Ck中表示的则是xi“非”同理可得Cj中为xi。

一个完整的实例图如下：

3.1.2 烦人的证明又来了！

Lemma. Φ is satisfiable iff G has a Hamilton cycle

Pf. ⇒

• Suppose 3-SAT instance Φ has satisfying assignment x*.
• Then, define Hamilton cycle Γ in G as follows:

• if x*i= true, traverse row i from left to right
• if x*i= false, traverse row i from right to left
• for each clause Cj , there will be at least one row i in which we are
  going in “correct” direction to splice clause node Cj into cycle
  (and we splice in Cj exactly once)

这种充分性其实不可靠的因为我可以将X1,x2,x3全部设置为true,那么显然哈密尔顿圈不满足。。。X1就重复了两次。

Pf. ⇐

• Suppose G has a Hamilton cycle Γ.
• If Γ enters clause node Cj , it must depart on mate edge.

• nodes immediately before and after Cj are connected by an edge e ∈ E
• removing Cj from cycle, and replacing it with edge e yields Hamilton
  cycle on G – { Cj }

• Continuing in this way, we are left with a Hamilton cycle Γʹ in
  G – { C1 , C2 , …, Ck }.
• Set x*i= true if Γʹ traverses row i left-to-right; otherwise,
• set x*i= false. traversed in “correct” direction, and each clause is satisfied.

4.1 3-satisfiability reduces to longest path

Pf 1. Redo proof for DIR-HAM-CYCLE, ignoring back-edge from t to s.
Pf 2. Show HAM-CYCLE ≤ P LONGEST-PATH

5.1 TSP

TSP. Given a set of n cities and a pairwise distance function d(u, v),
is there a tour of length ≤ D ?

5.1.1 HAM-CYCLE ≤ P TSP