English

Directed cycles have the edge-Erd\H os-P\'osa property

Combinatorics 2018-02-15 v1

Abstract

In this short note we prove that for every kNk\in \mathbb{N} there is a tkNt_k\in\mathbb{N} such that for every digraph GG there are either kk edge-disjoint directed cycles in GG or a set XX of at most tkt_k edges such that GXG-X contains no directed cycle.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1802.05026,
  title  = {Directed cycles have the edge-Erd\H os-P\'osa property},
  author = {Matthias Heinlein and Arthur Ulmer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.05026},
  year   = {2018}
}