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k-Ordered Hamilton cycles in digraphs

Combinatorics 2007-07-12 v1

Abstract

Given a digraph D, the minimum semi-degree of D is the minimum of its minimum indegree and its minimum outdegree. D is k-ordered Hamiltonian if for every ordered sequence of k distinct vertices there is a directed Hamilton cycle which encounters these vertices in this order. Our main result is that every digraph D of sufficiently large order n with minimum semi-degree at least (n+k)/2 -1 is k-ordered Hamiltonian. The bound on the minimum semi-degree is best possible. An undirected version of this result was proved earlier by Kierstead, S\'ark\"ozy and Selkow.

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@article{arxiv.0707.1577,
  title  = {k-Ordered Hamilton cycles in digraphs},
  author = {Daniela Kühn and Deryk Osthus and Andrew Young},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.1577},
  year   = {2007}
}
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