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Main Author: Gutiérrez, Juan
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05703
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author Gutiérrez, Juan
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contents A dual version of a conjecture by Woodall asserts that, in a planar digraph, the length of a shortest dicycle equals the maximum number of pairwise disjoint feedback arc sets. We verify this conjecture for the case where the underlying graph is a 3-tree or a partial 3-tree with girth $3$. Additionally, we show that every 3-tree has a feedback arc set of size at most~$m/3-1$, where~$m$ is the number of arcs of the digraph, and this bound is tight. We further establish an upper bound on the size of a minimum feedback arc set in $k$-trees. Finally, we discuss some open problems and conjectures.
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spellingShingle Towards a Dual Version of Woodall's Conjecture for Partial 3-Trees
Gutiérrez, Juan
Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
05C20
G.2.2
A dual version of a conjecture by Woodall asserts that, in a planar digraph, the length of a shortest dicycle equals the maximum number of pairwise disjoint feedback arc sets. We verify this conjecture for the case where the underlying graph is a 3-tree or a partial 3-tree with girth $3$. Additionally, we show that every 3-tree has a feedback arc set of size at most~$m/3-1$, where~$m$ is the number of arcs of the digraph, and this bound is tight. We further establish an upper bound on the size of a minimum feedback arc set in $k$-trees. Finally, we discuss some open problems and conjectures.
title Towards a Dual Version of Woodall's Conjecture for Partial 3-Trees
topic Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
05C20
G.2.2
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05703