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Abstract
The prism over a graph is the Cartesian product of with the complete graph on two vertices. A graph is prism-hamiltonian if the prism over is hamiltonian. We prove that every polyhedral graph (i.e., 3-connected planar graph) of minimum degree at least four is prism-hamiltonian.
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