Sullivan's second neighbourhood conjecture
Let be an oriented graph. For a vertex , let be its second out-neighbourhood and let be its in-neighbourhood.
Sullivan's conjecture. Every oriented graph contains at least one vertex such that
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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