English

Packing of spanning mixed arborescences

Combinatorics 2022-01-27 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we characterize a mixed graph FF which contains kk edge and arc disjoint spanning mixed arborescences F1,,FkF_{1}, \ldots, F_{k}, such that for each vV(F)v \in V(F), the cardinality of {i[k]:v is the root of Fi}\{i \in [k]: v \text{ is the root of } F_{i}\} lies in some prescribed interval. This generalizes both Nash-Williams and Tutte's theorem on spanning tree packing for undirected graphs and the previous characterization on digraphs which was given by Cai [in: Arc-disjoint arborescences of digraphs, J. Graph Theory 7(2) (1983), 235-240] and Frank [in: On disjoint trees and arborescences, Algebraic Methods in Graph Theory, Colloquia Mathematica Soc. J. Bolyai, Vol. 25 (North-Holland, Amsterdam) (1978), 159-169].

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@article{arxiv.2005.03218,
  title  = {Packing of spanning mixed arborescences},
  author = {Hui Gao and Daqing Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.03218},
  year   = {2022}
}
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