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On a conjecture of Knuth about forward and back arcs

Combinatorics 2023-01-16 v1 Data Structures and Algorithms

Abstract

Following Janson's method, we prove a conjecture of Knuth: the numbers of forward and back arcs for the depth-first search (DFS) in a digraph with a geometric outdegree distribution have the same distribution.

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@article{arxiv.2301.05704,
  title  = {On a conjecture of Knuth about forward and back arcs},
  author = {Zipei Nie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.05704},
  year   = {2023}
}

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