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The number of edges in critical strongly connected graphs

Combinatorics 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We prove that the maximal number of directed edges in a vertex-critical strongly connected simple digraph on n vertices is n(n-1)/2 - n +4.

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@article{arxiv.math/9911113,
  title  = {The number of edges in critical strongly connected graphs},
  author = {Ron Aharoni and Eli Berger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9911113},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

5 pages, no figures, given at the Eleventh Haifa Matrix Theory Conference 26.5.1999 Accepted at Discrete Math. v1 is the submitted version, v2 is the version after the referee's corrections. Note the main correction: the result for edge critical strongly connected graphs is already known