Revisiting classical results on kernels in digraphs

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Main Authors: Langlois, Hélène, Meunier, Frédéric
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author Langlois, Hélène
Meunier, Frédéric
author_facet Langlois, Hélène
Meunier, Frédéric
contents In a digraph, a kernel is a subset of vertices that is both independent and absorbing. Kernels have important applications in combinatorics and outside. Kernels do not always exist and finding sufficient conditions ensuring their existence is a key theoretical challenge. In this work, we revisit and generalize a few classical results of this sort, especially the Sands--Sauer--Woodrow theorem and the Galeana-Sánchez--Neumann-Lara theorem.
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spellingShingle Revisiting classical results on kernels in digraphs
Langlois, Hélène
Meunier, Frédéric
Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
G.2.2
In a digraph, a kernel is a subset of vertices that is both independent and absorbing. Kernels have important applications in combinatorics and outside. Kernels do not always exist and finding sufficient conditions ensuring their existence is a key theoretical challenge. In this work, we revisit and generalize a few classical results of this sort, especially the Sands--Sauer--Woodrow theorem and the Galeana-Sánchez--Neumann-Lara theorem.
title Revisiting classical results on kernels in digraphs
topic Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
G.2.2
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02482