Frank's vertex-connected orientation conjecture

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Let G=(V,E)G=(V,E) be a graph and let kk be a positive integer. A kk-vertex-connected orientation is an orientation of GG that is kk-vertex-connected. Frank's conjecture. GG has a kk-vertex-connected orientation if and only if ∣V∣≥k+1|V|\geq k+1 and G−XG-X is 2(k−∣X∣)2(k-|X|)-edge-connected for all X⊆VX\subseteq V with ∣X∣≤k−1|X|\leq k-1.

The conjecture was proved for k=2k=2 by Thomassen, but was disproved for every k≥3k\geq 3 by Durand de Gevigney; deciding whether a graph has a kk-vertex-connected orientation is NP-hard for every k≥3k\geq 3.

References

Primary source

Florian Hörsch and Zoltán Szigeti, “A note on 2-vertex-connected orientations”, arXiv:2112.07539 (2021).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2012–2021). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1212.4086, arXiv:1201.3727.

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