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Packing arborescences in random digraphs

Combinatorics 2017-10-03 v2 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

We study the problem of packing arborescences in the random digraph D(n,p)\mathcal D(n,p), where each possible arc is included uniformly at random with probability p=p(n)p=p(n). Let λ(D(n,p))\lambda(\mathcal D(n,p)) denote the largest integer λ0\lambda\geq 0 such that, for all 0λ0\leq \ell\leq \lambda, we have i=01(i){v:din(v)=i}\sum_{i=0}^{\ell-1} (\ell-i)|\{v: d^{in}(v) = i\}| \leq \ell. We show that the maximum number of arc-disjoint arborescences in D(n,p)\mathcal D(n,p) is λ(D(n,p))\lambda(\mathcal D(n,p)) a.a.s. We also give tight estimates for λ(D(n,p))\lambda(\mathcal D(n,p)) depending on the range of pp.

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@article{arxiv.1605.05764,
  title  = {Packing arborescences in random digraphs},
  author = {Carlos Hoppen and Roberto F. Parente and Cristiane M. Sato},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.05764},
  year   = {2017}
}

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17 pages

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