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Vertices with the Second Neighborhood Property in Eulerian Digraphs

Combinatorics 2019-11-28 v4

Abstract

The Second Neighborhood Conjecture states that every simple digraph has a vertex whose second out-neighborhood is at least as large as its first out-neighborhood, i.e. a vertex with the Second Neighborhood Property. A cycle intersection graph of an even graph is a new graph whose vertices are the cycles in a cycle decomposition of the original graph and whose edges represent vertex intersections of the cycles. By using a digraph variant of this concept, we prove that Eulerian digraphs which admit a simple cycle intersection graph have not only adhere to the Second Neighborhood Conjecture, but that local simplicity can, in some cases, also imply the existence of a Seymour vertex in the original digraph.

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@article{arxiv.1711.01189,
  title  = {Vertices with the Second Neighborhood Property in Eulerian Digraphs},
  author = {Michael Cary},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.01189},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

This is the version accepted for publication in Opuscula Mathematica

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