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Keywords:
claw-free graph; 2-factor; closure; locally disconnected vertex; singular edge
Summary:
An edge of \$G\$ is singular if it does not lie on any triangle of \$G\$; otherwise, it is non-singular. A vertex \$u\$ of a graph \$G\$ is called locally connected if the induced subgraph \$G[N(u)]\$ by its neighborhood is connected; otherwise, it is called locally disconnected. In this paper, we prove that if a connected claw-free graph \$G\$ of order at least three satisfies the following two conditions: (i) for each locally disconnected vertex \$v\$ of degree at least \$3\$ in \$G,\$ there is a nonnegative integer \$s\$ such that \$v\$ lies on an induced cycle of length at least \$4\$ with at most \$s\$ non-singular edges and with at least \$s-5\$ locally connected vertices; (ii) for each locally disconnected vertex \$v\$ of degree \$2\$ in \$G,\$ there is a nonnegative integer \$s\$ such that \$v\$ lies on an induced cycle \$C\$ with at most \$s\$ non-singular edges and with at least \$s-3\$ locally connected vertices and such that \$G[V (C)\cap V_{2} (G)]\$ is a path or a cycle, then \$G\$ has a 2-factor, and it is the best possible in some sense. This result generalizes two known results in Faudree, Faudree and Ryjáček (2008) and in Ryjáček, Xiong and Yoshimoto (2010).
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