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Remoteness, order, size and connectivity constraints in digraphs

Combinatorics 2025-10-13 v1

Abstract

Let D D be a strongly connected digraph. The average distance of a vertex v v in D D is defined as the arithmetic mean of the distances from v v to all other vertices in D D . The remoteness ρ(D) \rho(D) of D D is the maximum of the average distances of the vertices in D D . In this paper, we provide a sharp upper bound on the remoteness of a strong digraph with given order, size, and vertex-connectivity. We then characterise the extremal digraphs that maximise remoteness among all strong digraphs of order nn, size at least mm, and vertex-connectivity κ\kappa. Finally, we demonstrate that the upper bounds on the remoteness of a graph given its order, size, and connectivity constraints (see \cite{DanMafMal2025}) can be extended to a larger class of digraphs containing all graphs, the Eulerian digraphs.

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@article{arxiv.2510.08841,
  title  = {Remoteness, order, size and connectivity constraints in digraphs},
  author = {Sufiyan Mallu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.08841},
  year   = {2025}
}
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