Thomassen's conjecture on good vertex pairs in arc-strong digraphs
Thomassen's conjecture on good vertex pairs in arc-strong digraphs
Let be a digraph. It is -arc-strong if remains strong for every subset of size at most . An out-branching of is a spanning oriented tree in which every vertex except its root has in-degree one, and an in-branching is a spanning oriented tree in which every vertex except its root has out-degree one. A good -pair is a pair of arc-disjoint out-branching and in-branching rooted at and , respectively.
Thomassen's conjecture. There exists an integer such that every -arc-strong digraph has a good -pair for every choice of .
This conjecture asks for a uniform arc-connectivity condition guaranteeing compatible branchings with arbitrary prescribed roots. The source gives no resolution, so the conjecture remains open.
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Primary source
Jiangdong Ai, Yiming Hao, Zhaoxiang Li and Qi Shao, “Arc-disjoint in- and out-branchings in semicomplete split digraphs”, arXiv:2410.12575 (2024).
Additional references
7 papers in this index state this conjecture (2020–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2309.06904, arXiv:2302.08283, arXiv:2302.06177, arXiv:2206.12092, arXiv:2012.03742, arXiv:2007.02834.
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