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Partitioning digraphs with outdegree at least 4

Combinatorics 2020-12-24 v2

Abstract

Scott asked the question of determining cdc_d such that if DD is a digraph with mm arcs and minimum outdegree d2d\ge 2 then V(D)V(D) has a partition V1,V2V_1, V_2 such that min{e(V1,V2),e(V2,V1)}cdm\min\left\{e(V_1,V_2),e(V_2, V_1)\right\}\geq c_dm, where e(V1,V2)e(V_1,V_2) (respectively, e(V2,V1)e(V_2,V_1)) is the number of arcs from V1V_1 to V2V_2 (respectively, from V2V_2 to V1V_1). Lee, Loh, and Sudakov showed that c2=1/6+o(1)c_2=1/6+o(1) and c3=1/5+o(1)c_3=1/5+o(1), and conjectured that cd=d12(2d1)+o(1)c_d= \frac{d-1}{2(2d-1)}+o(1) for d4d\ge 4. In this paper, we show c4=3/14+o(1)c_4=3/14+o(1) and prove some partial results for d5d\ge 5.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2006.01116,
  title  = {Partitioning digraphs with outdegree at least 4},
  author = {Guanwu Liu and Xingxing Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.01116},
  year   = {2020}
}

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18 pages

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