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Alternating paths in oriented graphs with large semidegree

Combinatorics 2025-09-08 v3

Abstract

In new progress on conjectures of Stein, and Addario-Berry, Havet, Linhares Sales, Reed and Thomass\'e, we prove that every oriented graph with all in- and out-degrees greater than 5k/8 contains an alternating path of length k. This improves on previous results of Klimo\v{s}ov\'a and Stein, and Chen, Hou and Zhou.

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@article{arxiv.2406.03166,
  title  = {Alternating paths in oriented graphs with large semidegree},
  author = {Jozef Skokan and Mykhaylo Tyomkyn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.03166},
  year   = {2025}
}

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minor changes, bibliography updated, 7 pages, final version

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