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Arc-Disjoint Cycles and Feedback Arc Sets

Combinatorics 2012-06-26 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

Isaak posed the following problem. Suppose TT is a tournament having a minimum feedback arc set which induces an acyclic digraph with a hamiltonian path. Is it true that the maximum number of arc-disjoint cycles in TT equals the cardinality of minimum feedback arc set of TT? We prove that the answer to the problem is in the negative. Further, we study the number of arc-disjoint cycles through a vertex vv of the minimum out-degree in an oriented graph DD. We prove that if vv is adjacent to all other vertices, then vv belongs to δ+(D)\delta^+(D) arc-disjoint cycles.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1206.5467,
  title  = {Arc-Disjoint Cycles and Feedback Arc Sets},
  author = {Jan Florek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.5467},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures

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