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A minimum semi-degree sufficient condition for one-to-many disjoint path covers in semicomplete digraphs

Combinatorics 2022-08-22 v1

Abstract

Let DD be a digraph. We define the minimum semi-degree of DD as δ0(D):=min{δ+(D),δ(D)}\delta^{0}(D) := \min \{\delta^{+}(D), \delta^{-}(D)\}. Let kk be a positive integer, and let S={s}S = \{s\} and T={t1,,tk}T = \{t_{1}, \dots ,t_{k}\} be any two disjoint subsets of V(D)V(D). A set of kk internally disjoint paths joining source set SS and sink set TT that cover all vertices DD are called a one-to-many kk-disjoint directed path cover (kk-DDPC for short) of DD. A digraph DD is semicomplete if for every pair x,yx,y of vertices of it, there is at least one arc between xx and yy. In this paper, we prove that every semicomplete digraph DD of sufficiently large order nn with δ0(D)(n+k1)/2\delta^{0}(D) \geq \lceil (n+k-1)/2\rceil has a one-to-many kk-DDPC joining any disjoint source set SS and sink set TT, where S={s},T={t1,,tk}S = \{s\}, T = \{t_{1}, \dots, t_{k}\}.

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@article{arxiv.2208.09313,
  title  = {A minimum semi-degree sufficient condition for one-to-many disjoint path covers in semicomplete digraphs},
  author = {Ansong Ma and Yuefang Sun and Xiaoyan Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.09313},
  year   = {2022}
}