Feedback vertex sets of digraphs with bounded maximum degree
Combinatorics
2025-12-02 v1
Abstract
A digraph is an oriented graph if does not have a pair of opposite arcs. The degree of a vertex of is the sum of the in-degree and out-degree of Let be the minimum number of vertices whose deletion from makes it acyclic. Let be a digraph with vertices and maximum degree . We prove the following bounds. If is an oriented graph, then when and when . If is a connected digraph, and is not obtained from an odd undirected cycle by replacing every edge with the pair of opposite arcs with the same endvertices, then . If is an arbitrary digraph with then Note that all the above bounds are tight.
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@article{arxiv.2512.01676,
title = {Feedback vertex sets of digraphs with bounded maximum degree},
author = {Jiangdong Ai and Gregory Gutin and Xiangzhou Liu and Anders Yeo and Yacong Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.01676},
year = {2025}
}