Abstract: | For an integer , a graph is -hamiltonian if for any vertex subset with , is hamiltonian, and is -hamiltonian connected if for any vertex subset with , is hamiltonian connected. Thomassen in 1984 conjectured that every 4-connected line graph is hamiltonian (see Thomassen, 1986), and Ku?zel and Xiong in 2004 conjectured that every 4-connected line graph is hamiltonian connected (see Ryjá?ek and Vrána, 2011). In Broersma and Veldman (1987), Broersma and Veldman raised the characterization problem of -hamiltonian line graphs. In Lai and Shao (2013), it is conjectured that for , a line graph is -hamiltonian if and only if is -connected. In this paper we prove the following.(i) For an integer , the line graph of a claw-free graph is -hamiltonian if and only if is -connected.(ii) The line graph of a claw-free graph is 1-hamiltonian connected if and only if is 4-connected. |