Feedback vertex sets of digraphs with bounded maximum degree

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Autori principali: Ai, Jiangdong, Gutin, Gregory, Liu, Xiangzhou, Yeo, Anders, Zhou, Yacong
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Ai, Jiangdong
Gutin, Gregory
Liu, Xiangzhou
Yeo, Anders
Zhou, Yacong
author_facet Ai, Jiangdong
Gutin, Gregory
Liu, Xiangzhou
Yeo, Anders
Zhou, Yacong
contents A digraph $D$ is an oriented graph if $D$ does not have a pair of opposite arcs. The degree of a vertex $v$ of $D$ is the sum of the in-degree and out-degree of $v.$ Let $fvs(D)$ be the minimum number of vertices whose deletion from $D$ makes it acyclic. Let $D$ be a digraph with $n$ vertices and maximum degree $Δ$. We prove the following bounds. If $D$ is an oriented graph, then $fvs(D)\leq \frac{3n}{7}$ when $Δ\le 4$ and $fvs(D)\leq \frac{n}{2}$ when $Δ\le 5$. If $D$ is a connected digraph, $Δ\le 4$ and $D$ is not obtained from an odd undirected cycle by replacing every edge with the pair of opposite arcs with the same endvertices, then $fvs(D)\leq \frac{n}{2}$. If $D$ is an arbitrary digraph with $Δ\le 5$ then $fvs(D)\leq \frac{2n}{3}.$ Note that all the above bounds are tight.
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Ai, Jiangdong
Gutin, Gregory
Liu, Xiangzhou
Yeo, Anders
Zhou, Yacong
Combinatorics
A digraph $D$ is an oriented graph if $D$ does not have a pair of opposite arcs. The degree of a vertex $v$ of $D$ is the sum of the in-degree and out-degree of $v.$ Let $fvs(D)$ be the minimum number of vertices whose deletion from $D$ makes it acyclic. Let $D$ be a digraph with $n$ vertices and maximum degree $Δ$. We prove the following bounds. If $D$ is an oriented graph, then $fvs(D)\leq \frac{3n}{7}$ when $Δ\le 4$ and $fvs(D)\leq \frac{n}{2}$ when $Δ\le 5$. If $D$ is a connected digraph, $Δ\le 4$ and $D$ is not obtained from an odd undirected cycle by replacing every edge with the pair of opposite arcs with the same endvertices, then $fvs(D)\leq \frac{n}{2}$. If $D$ is an arbitrary digraph with $Δ\le 5$ then $fvs(D)\leq \frac{2n}{3}.$ Note that all the above bounds are tight.
title Feedback vertex sets of digraphs with bounded maximum degree
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.01676