English

On splitting digraphs

Combinatorics 2018-04-11 v2

Abstract

In 1995, Stiebitz asked the following question: For any positive integers s,ts,t, is there a finite integer f(s,t)f(s,t) such that every digraph DD with minimum out-degree at least f(s,t)f(s,t) admits a bipartition (A,B)(A, B) such that AA induces a subdigraph with minimum out-degree at least ss and BB induces a subdigraph with minimum out-degree at least tt? We give an affirmative answer for tournaments, multipartite tournaments, and digraphs with bounded maximum in-degrees. In particular, we show that for every ϵ\epsilon with 0<ϵ<1/20<\epsilon<1/2, there exists an integer δ0\delta_0 such that every tournament with minimum out-degree at least δ0\delta_0 admits a bisection (A,B)(A, B), so that each vertex has at least (1/2ϵ)(1/2-\epsilon) of its out-neighbors in AA, and in BB as well.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1707.03600,
  title  = {On splitting digraphs},
  author = {Donglei Yang and Yandong Bai and Guanghui Wang and Jianliang Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.03600},
  year   = {2018}
}

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