Sullivan's second neighbourhood conjecture

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Let GG be an oriented graph. For a vertex vv, let N2+(v)N^+_2(v) be its second out-neighbourhood and let N1−(v)N^-_1(v) be its in-neighbourhood.

Sullivan's conjecture. Every oriented graph contains at least one vertex vv such that

∣N2+(v)∣≥∣N1−(v)∣.|N^+_2(v)| \geq |N^-_1(v)|.

Sullivan proposed this variation of Seymour's conjecture in a survey on the Caccetta–Häggkvist conjecture. The paper constructs special putative counterexamples and studies highly symmetric cases, but the conjecture remains open.

References

Primary source

Krystal Guo, Ross J. Kang and Gabriëlle Zwaneveld, “Seymour-tight orientations”, arXiv:2603.29626 (2026).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2023–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2403.02842, arXiv:2306.03493.

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