Cycles and paths through specified vertices in graphs with a given clique number

Abstract

B. Bollobás and G. Brightwell and independently R. Shi proved the existence of a cycle through all vertices whose degrees at least $\frac{n}{2}$ in any $2$-connected graph of order $n$. Motivated by this result, we prove the existence of a cycle through all vertices whose degrees at least $n-ω$ in any $2$-connected graph $G$ of order $n$ with clique number $ω$ unless $G$ is a specific graph. Moreover, we show that for any pair of vertices whose degrees are at least $n-ω+1$ in a graph $G$ of order $n$ with clique number $ω$, there exists a path joining them which contains all vertices of degree at least $n-ω+1$ unless $G$ belongs to certain graph classes. In doing so, we prove the existence of a $(u,v)$-path through all vertices whose degrees at least $\frac{n+1}{2}$ in any graph of order $n$, where $u,v$ are two distinct vertices of degree at least $\frac{n+1}{2}$.