Remoteness, order, size and connectivity constraints in digraphs
Abstract
Let be a strongly connected digraph. The average distance of a vertex in is defined as the arithmetic mean of the distances from to all other vertices in . The remoteness of is the maximum of the average distances of the vertices in . 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 , size at least , and vertex-connectivity . 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}
}