A note on the girth of digraphs |
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Authors: | Yahya Ould Hamidoune |
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Affiliation: | (1) Université Pierre et Marie CURIE U. E. R. 48—E.R. Combinatoire, 4 Place Jussieu, 75230 Paris Cedex 05, France |
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Abstract: | Behzad, Chartrand and Wall conjectured that the girth of a diregular graph of ordern and outdegreer is not greater than [n /r]. This conjecture has been proved forr=2 by Behzad and forr=3 by Bermond. We prove that a digraph of ordern and halfdegree ≧4 has girth not exceeding [n / 4]. We also obtain short proofs of the above results. Our method is an application of the theory of connectivity of digraphs. |
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Keywords: | 05 C 20 05 C 38 05 C 35 05 C 40 |
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