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Menger's Theorem in bidirected graphs

Combinatorics 2023-06-29 v2

Abstract

Bidirected graphs are a generalisation of directed graphs that arises in the study of undirected graphs with perfect matchings. Menger's famous theorem - the minimum size of a set separating two vertex sets XX and YY is the same as the maximum number of disjoint paths connecting them - is generally not true in bidirected graphs. We introduce a sufficient condition for XX and YY which yields a version of Menger's Theorem in bidirected graphs that in particular implies its directed counterpart.

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@article{arxiv.2306.01921,
  title  = {Menger's Theorem in bidirected graphs},
  author = {Nathan Bowler and Ebrahim Ghorbani and Florian Gut and Raphael W. Jacobs and Florian Reich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.01921},
  year   = {2023}
}

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23 pages, 6 figures

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