Tutte's (46-vertex) graph is a cubic nonhamiltonian graph contructed by Tutte (1946) as a counterexample to Tait's
Hamiltonian graph conjecture by using three copies ofTutte's
fragment (Grünbaum 2003, pp. 359-360, Fig. 17.1.4).
A simpler counterexample to the Tutte conjecture was later given by Kozyrev and Grinberg (Sachs 1968, Berge 1973), and smaller counterexamples
include the Barnette-Bosák-Lederberg
graph, Faulkner-Younger graphs, Grinberg graphs, and Grünbaum
graphs.
Tutte's graph is implemented in the Wolfram
Language as GraphData["TutteGraph"].
The plots above show the adjacency, incidence,
and graph distance matrices for Tutte's graph.
The Tutte 8-cage is sometimes also called the Tutte
graph (Royle).
See also
Barnette-Bosák-Lederberg Graph,
Faulkner-Younger Graphs,
Grinberg Graphs,
Grünbaum
Graphs,
Hamiltonian Cycle,
Nonhamiltonian
Graph,
Tait's Hamiltonian Graph
Conjecture,
Tutte 8-Cage,
Tutte
12-Cage,
Tutte's Fragment
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References
Berge, C. Graphs and Hypergraphs. New York: Elsevier, 1973.Grünbaum, B.
Convex
Polytopes, 2nd ed. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2003.Honsberger,
R. Mathematical
Gems I. Washington, DC: Math. Assoc. Amer., pp. 82-89, 1973.Read,
R. C. and Wilson, R. J. An
Atlas of Graphs. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, p. 274, 1998.Royle,
G. "Cubic Cages." http://school.maths.uwa.edu.au/~gordon/remote/cages/.Saaty,
T. L. and Kainen, P. C. The
Four-Color Problem: Assaults and Conquest. New York: Dover, p. 112,
1986.Sachs, H. "Ein von Kozyrev und Grinberg angegebener nicht-Hamiltonischer
kubischer planarer Graph." In Beiträge zur Graphentheorie. pp. 127-130,
1968.Skiena, S. Implementing
Discrete Mathematics: Combinatorics and Graph Theory with Mathematica. Reading,
MA: Addison-Wesley, p. 198, 1990.Tait, P. G. "Remarks
on the Colouring of Maps." Proc. Royal Soc. Edinburgh 10, 729,
1880.Tutte, W. T. "On Hamiltonian Circuits." J. London
Math. Soc. 21, 98-101, 1946.Tutte, W. T. "Non-Hamiltonian
Planar Maps." In Graph
Theory and Computing (Ed. R. Read). New York: Academic Press, pp. 295-301,
1972.
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