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Packing directed circuits exactly

Combinatorics 2010-12-14 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

We give an "excluded minor" and a "structural" characterization of digraphs D that have the property that for every subdigraph H of D, the maximum number of disjoint circuits in H is equal to the minimum cardinality of a subset T of V(H) such that H\T is acyclic.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1012.2749,
  title  = {Packing directed circuits exactly},
  author = {Bertrand Guenin and Robin Thomas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.2749},
  year   = {2010}
}

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To appear in Combinatorica

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