5-regular 3-polytopal Graphs with Edges of Only Two Types and Shortness Exponents Less than One

Abstract It is shown that, if q ⩾ 29 and q ≢ 0 (mod 3), the infinite class of 5-regular 3-polytopal graphs whose edges are incident with either two triangles or a triangle and a q -gon contains nonhamiltonian members and even has shortness exponent less than one.