正圆有向图中的弧不相交的Hamilton路和圈

2012年,Bang-Jensen和Huang(J.Combin.Theory Ser.B.2012,102:701-714)证明了2-弧强的局部半完全有向图可以分解为两个弧不相交的强连通生成子图当且仅当D不是偶圈的二次幂,并提出了任意3-强的局部竞赛图中包含两个弧不相交的Hamilton圈的猜想.主要研究正圆有向图中的弧不相交的Hamilton路和Hamilton圈,并证明了任意3-弧强的正圆有向图中包含两个弧不相交的Hamilton圈和任意4-弧强的正圆有向图中包含一个Hamilton圈和两个Hamilton路,使得它们两两弧不相交.由于任意圆有向图一定是正圆有向图,所得结论可以推广到圆有向图中.又由于圆有向图是局部竞赛图的子图类,因此所得结论说明对局部竞赛图的子图类――圆有向图,Bang-Jensen和Huang的猜想成立.     

Packing strong subgraph in digraphs

In this paper, we study two types of strong subgraph packing problems in digraphs, including internally disjoint strong subgraph packing problem and arc-disjoint strong subgraph packing problem. These problems can be viewed as generalizations of the famous Steiner tree packing problem and are closely related to the strong arc decomposition problem. We first prove the NP-completeness for the internally disjoint strong subgraph packing problem restricted to symmetric digraphs and Eulerian digraphs. Then we get inapproximability results for the arc-disjoint strong subgraph packing problem and the internally disjoint strong subgraph packing problem. Finally we study the arc-disjoint strong subgraph packing problem restricted to digraph compositions and obtain some algorithmic results by utilizing the structural properties.     

Spanning 2-strong tournaments in 3-strong semicomplete digraphs

We prove that every 3-strong semicomplete digraph on at least 5 vertices contains a spanning 2-strong tournament. Our proof is constructive and implies a polynomial algorithm for finding a spanning 2-strong tournament in a given 3-strong semicomplete digraph. We also show that there are infinitely many (2k−2)-strong semicomplete digraphs which contain no spanning k-strong tournament and conjecture that every(2k−1)-strong semicomplete digraph which is not the complete digraph on 2k vertices contains a spanning k-strong tournament.     

Kernels of digraphs with finitely many ends

According to Richardson’s theorem, every digraph $G$ without directed odd cycles that is either (a) locally finite or (b) rayless has a kernel (an independent subset $K$ with an incoming edge from every vertex in $G?K$). We generalize this theorem showing that a digraph without directed odd cycles has a kernel when (a) for each vertex, there is a finite set separating it from all rays, or (b) each ray contains at most finitely many vertices dominating it (having an infinite fan to the ray) and the digraph has finitely many ends. The restriction to finitely many ends in (b) can be weakened, admitting infinitely many ends with a specific structure, but the possibility of dropping it remains a conjecture.     

Distance and size in digraphs

We determine the maximum number of arcs in an Eulerian digraph of given order and diameter. Our bound generalises a classical result on the maximum number of edges of an undirected graph of given order and diameter by Ore (1968) and Homenko and Ostroverhii? (1970). We further determine the maximum size of a bipartite digraph of given order and radius.     

Openly disjoint circuits through a vertex in regular digraphs

In 1985, Thomassen [14] constructed for every positive integer r, finite digraphs D of minimum degree δ(D)=r which do not contain a vertex x lying on three openly disjoint circuits, i.e. circuits which have pairwise exactly x in common. In 2005, Seymour [11] posed the question, whether an r-regular digraph contains a vertex x such that there are r openly disjoint circuits through x. This is true for r≤3, but does not hold for r≥8. But perhaps, in contrast to the minimum degree, a high regularity degree suffices for the existence of a vertex lying on r openly disjoint circuits also for r≥4. After a survey of these problems, we will show that every r-regular digraph with r≥7 has a vertex which lies on 4 openly disjoint circuits.     

Enumerations of vertex orders of almost Moore digraphs with selfrepeats

An almost Moore digraph G of degree d>1, diameter k>1 is a diregular digraph with the number of vertices one less than the Moore bound. If G is an almost Moore digraph, then for each vertex u∈V(G) there exists a vertex v∈V(G), called repeat of u and denoted by r(u)=v, such that there are two walks of length ?k from u to v. The smallest positive integer p such that the composition r^p(u)=u is called the order of u. If the order of u is 1 then u is called a selfrepeat. It is known that if G is an almost Moore digraph of diameter k?3 then G contains exactly k selfrepeats or none. In this paper, we propose an exact formula for the number of all vertex orders in an almost Moore digraph G containing selfrepeats, based on the vertex orders of the out-neighbours of any selfrepeat vertex.     

Extremal digraphs avoiding distinct walks of length 3 with the same endpoints

In this paper, we determine the maximum size of digraphs on n vertices which avoid two distinct walks of length 3 with the same initial vertex and the same terminal vertex. The digraphs attaining this maximum size are also characterized. Combining this with previous results, we obtain a full solution to a problem proposed by X. Zhan in 2007.     

A Turán problem on digraphs avoiding distinct walks of a given length with the same endpoints

Let $k\ge 4$ and $n\ge k+4$ be positive integers. We determine the maximum size of digraphs of order $n$ that avoid distinct walks of length $k$ with the same endpoints. We also characterize the extremal digraphs attaining this maximum number when $k\ge 5$.     

Arc‐chromatic number of digraphs in which every vertex has bounded outdegree or bounded indegree

A k‐digraph is a digraph in which every vertex has outdegree at most k. A ‐digraph is a digraph in which a vertex has either outdegree at most k or indegree at most l. Motivated by function theory, we study the maximum value Φ (k) (resp. ) of the arc‐chromatic number over the k‐digraphs (resp. ‐digraphs). El‐Sahili [3] showed that . After giving a simple proof of this result, we show some better bounds. We show and where θ is the function defined by . We then study in more detail properties of Φ and . Finally, we give the exact values of and for . © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Graph Theory 53: 315–332, 2006     

On the weak distance-regularity of Moore-type digraphs

We prove that Moore digraphs, and some other classes of extremal digraphs, are weakly distance-regular in the sense that there is an invariance of the number of walks between vertices at a given distance. As weakly distance-regular digraphs, we then compute their complete spectrum from a ‘small’ intersection matrix. This is a very useful tool for deriving some results about their existence and/or their structural properties. For instance, we present here an alternative and unified proof of the existence results on Moore digraphs, Moore bipartite digraphs and, more generally, Moore generalized p-cycles. In addition, we show that the line digraph structure appears as a characteristic property of any Moore generalized p-cycle of diameter D?≥?2p.     

On the restricted arc-connectivity of s-geodetic digraphs

For a strongly connected digraph D the minimum ,cardinality of an arc-cut over all arc-cuts restricted arc-connectivity λ′（D） is defined as the S satisfying that D - S has a non-trivial strong component D1 such that D - V（D1） contains an arc. Let S be a subset of vertices of D. We denote by w＋（S） the set of arcs uv with u ∈ S and v S, and by w-（S） the set of arcs uv with u S and v ∈ S. A digraph D = （V, A） is said to be λ′-optimal if λ′（D） =ξ′（D）, where ξ′（D） is the minimum arc-degree of D defined as ξ（D） = min {ξ′（xy） ： xy ∈ A}, and ξ′（xy） = min（｜ω＋（{x,y}）｜, ｜w-（{x,y}）｜, ｜w＋（x） ∪ w- （y） ｜, ｜w- （x） ∪ω＋ （y）｜}. In this paper a sufficient condition for a s-geodetic strongly connected digraph D to be λ′-optimal is given in terms of its diameter. Furthermore we see that the h-iterated line digraph Lh（D） of a s-geodetic digraph is λ′-optimal for certain iteration h.     

ON THE EXPONENT SET OF PRIMITIVELOCALLY SEMICOMPLETE DIGRAPHS

A locally semicomplete digraph is a digraph D=(V,A) satisfying the following condi-tion for every vertex x∈V the D[O(x)] and D[I(x)] are semicomplete digraphs. In this paper,we get some properties of cycles and determine the exponent set of primitive locally semicompleted digraphs.