A sufficient local degree condition for Hamiltonicity in locally finite claw-free graphs

Abstract

Among the well-known sufficient degree conditions for the Hamiltonicity of a finite graph, the condition of Asratian and Khachatrian is the weakest and thus gives the strongest result. Diestel conjectured that it should extend to locally finite infinite graphs~$G$, in that the same condition implies that the Freudenthal compactification of $G$ contains a circle through all its vertices and ends. We prove Diestel's conjecture for claw-free graphs.