Antidirected trees in directed graphs

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Main Authors: Kontogeorgiou, George, Santos, Giovanne, Stein, Maya
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author Kontogeorgiou, George
Santos, Giovanne
Stein, Maya
author_facet Kontogeorgiou, George
Santos, Giovanne
Stein, Maya
contents The Komlós-Sárközy-Szemerédi (KSS) theorem establishes that a certain bound on the minimum degree of a graph guarantees it contains all bounded degree trees of the same order. Recently several authors put forward variants of this result, where the tree is of smaller order than the host graph, and the host graph also obeys a maximum degree condition. Also, Kathapurkar and Montgomery extended the KSS theorem to digraphs. We bring these two directions together by establishing minimum and maximum degree bounds for digraphs that ensure the containment of oriented trees of smaller order. Our result is restricted to balanced antidirected trees of bounded degree. More precisely, we show that for every $γ> 0$, $c\in\mathbb{R}$, $\ell\geq 2$ sufficiently large $n$ and all $k\geqγn$, the following holds for every $n$-vertex digraph $D$ and every balanced antidirected tree $T$ with $k$ arcs whose total maximum degree is bounded by $(\log n)^c$. If $D$ has a vertex of outdegree at least $(1+γ)(\ell -1)k$, a vertex of indegree at least $(1+γ)(\ell -1)k$ and minimum semidegree $δ^0(D)\geq\left(\frac{\ell}{2\ell -1}+γ\right)k$, then $D$ contains $T$.
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spellingShingle Antidirected trees in directed graphs
Kontogeorgiou, George
Santos, Giovanne
Stein, Maya
Combinatorics
05D10, 05C05, 05C20
The Komlós-Sárközy-Szemerédi (KSS) theorem establishes that a certain bound on the minimum degree of a graph guarantees it contains all bounded degree trees of the same order. Recently several authors put forward variants of this result, where the tree is of smaller order than the host graph, and the host graph also obeys a maximum degree condition. Also, Kathapurkar and Montgomery extended the KSS theorem to digraphs. We bring these two directions together by establishing minimum and maximum degree bounds for digraphs that ensure the containment of oriented trees of smaller order. Our result is restricted to balanced antidirected trees of bounded degree. More precisely, we show that for every $γ> 0$, $c\in\mathbb{R}$, $\ell\geq 2$ sufficiently large $n$ and all $k\geqγn$, the following holds for every $n$-vertex digraph $D$ and every balanced antidirected tree $T$ with $k$ arcs whose total maximum degree is bounded by $(\log n)^c$. If $D$ has a vertex of outdegree at least $(1+γ)(\ell -1)k$, a vertex of indegree at least $(1+γ)(\ell -1)k$ and minimum semidegree $δ^0(D)\geq\left(\frac{\ell}{2\ell -1}+γ\right)k$, then $D$ contains $T$.
title Antidirected trees in directed graphs
topic Combinatorics
05D10, 05C05, 05C20
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.11726