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Point- and arc-reaching sets of vertices in a digraph

Combinatorics 2016-10-18 v1

Abstract

In a digraph D=(X,U)D = (X, \mathcal{U}), not necessarily finite, an arc (x,y)U(x, y) \in \mathcal{U} is reachable from a vertex uu if there exists a directed walk WW that originates from uu and contains (x,y)(x, y). A subset SXS \subseteq X is an arc-reaching set of DD if for every arc (x,y)(x, y) there exists a diwalk WW originating at a vertex uSu \in S and containing (x,y)(x, y). A minimal arc-reaching set is an arc-basis. SS is a point-reaching set if for every vertex vv there exists a diwalk WW to vv originating at a vertex uSu \in S. A minimal point-reaching set is a point-basis. We extend the results of Harary, Norman, and Cartwright on point-bases in finite digraphs to point- and arc-bases in infinite digraphs.

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@article{arxiv.1001.4213,
  title  = {Point- and arc-reaching sets of vertices in a digraph},
  author = {B. D. Acharya and K. A. Germina and Kumar Abhishek and S. B. Rao and T. Zaslavsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.4213},
  year   = {2016}
}