An improved bound on Seymour's second neighborhood conjecture

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Main Authors: Huang, Hao, Peng, Fei
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author Huang, Hao
Peng, Fei
author_facet Huang, Hao
Peng, Fei
contents Seymour's celebrated second neighborhood conjecture, now more than thirty years old, states that in every oriented digraph, there is a vertex $u$ such that the size of its second out-neighborhood $N^{++}(u)$ is at least as large as that of its first out-neighborhood $N^+(u)$. In this paper, we prove the existence of $u$ for which $|N^{++}(u)| \ge 0.715538 |N^+(u)|$. This result provides the first improvement to the best known constant factor in over two decades.
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spellingShingle An improved bound on Seymour's second neighborhood conjecture
Huang, Hao
Peng, Fei
Combinatorics
05C20 (Primary) 05C35, 05C12 (Secondary)
Seymour's celebrated second neighborhood conjecture, now more than thirty years old, states that in every oriented digraph, there is a vertex $u$ such that the size of its second out-neighborhood $N^{++}(u)$ is at least as large as that of its first out-neighborhood $N^+(u)$. In this paper, we prove the existence of $u$ for which $|N^{++}(u)| \ge 0.715538 |N^+(u)|$. This result provides the first improvement to the best known constant factor in over two decades.
title An improved bound on Seymour's second neighborhood conjecture
topic Combinatorics
05C20 (Primary) 05C35, 05C12 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.20234