Sufficient Conditions for a Digraph to be Supereulerian |
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Authors: | Jørgen Bang‐Jensen Alessandro Maddaloni |
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Affiliation: | DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK, ODENSE, DENMARK |
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Abstract: | A (di)graph is supereulerian if it contains a spanning eulerian sub(di)graph. This property is a relaxation of hamiltonicity. Inspired by this analogy with hamiltonian cycles and by similar results in supereulerian graph theory, we analyze a number of sufficient Ore type conditions for a digraph to be supereulerian. Furthermore, we study the following conjecture due to Thomassé and the first author: if the arc‐connectivity of a digraph is not smaller than its independence number, then the digraph is supereulerian. As a support for this conjecture we prove it for digraphs that are semicomplete multipartite or quasitransitive and verify the analogous statement for undirected graphs. |
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Keywords: | supereulerian digraph spanning closed trail degree conditions arc‐connectivity independence number semicomplete multipartite digraph quasitransitive digraph |
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