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On the minimal feedback arc set of m-free Digraphs

Combinatorics 2012-04-23 v1

Abstract

For a simple digraph GG, let β(G)\beta(G) be the size of the smallest subset XE(G)X\subseteq E(G) such that GXG-X has no directed cycles, and let γ(G)\gamma(G) be the number of unordered pairs of nonadjacent vertices in GG. A digraph GG is called mm-free if GG has no directed cycles of length at most mm. This paper proves that β(G)1m2γ(G)\beta(G)\leq \frac{1}{m-2}\gamma(G) for any mm-free digraph GG, which generalized some known results.

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@article{arxiv.1204.4516,
  title  = {On the minimal feedback arc set of m-free Digraphs},
  author = {Hao Liang and Jun-Ming Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.4516},
  year   = {2012}
}