Hamiltonian graphs with prescribed minimum degree and no near-spanning cycles
In 1984, Roland H\"{a}ggkvist posed the problem of constructing Hamiltonian graphs of order $n$ with large minimum degree and no $(n-2)$-cycle. He remarked that he did not know of such a graph with minimum degree at least three. We solve this problem by proving the following two results. (1) For every integer $d\ge 3$...