Caccetta–Häggkvist conjecture
Let . A digraph has girth at least if its shortest directed cycle has length at least , and let denote its minimum out-degree. Caccetta–Häggkvist conjecture. Every digraph with
and girth at least contains at least
vertices. This is a major open problem in extremal graph theory; it remains open even for , and its -regular special case is also unresolved.
References
Primary source
Raphael Steiner, “Openly disjoint cycles and directed tree-width of regular digraphs”, arXiv:2604.13700 (2026).
Additional references
30 papers in this index state this conjecture (2008–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2507.04581, arXiv:2412.20234, arXiv:2405.17797, arXiv:2404.03752, arXiv:2403.13571, arXiv:2311.12302, arXiv:2306.03493, arXiv:2212.05697, arXiv:2211.07897, arXiv:2211.03129, arXiv:2206.10733, arXiv:2110.11183, and 17 more.
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