Nash-Williams' directed degree-sequence conjecture

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Let DD be a strongly connected digraph on nn vertices, with nondecreasing out-degree sequence d1+dn+d_1^+\leq\cdots\leq d_n^+ and in-degree sequence d1dnd_1^-\leq\cdots\leq d_n^-. Nash-Williams' directed degree-sequence conjecture. If, for every integer i<n/2i<n/2, either di+i+1d_i^+\geq i+1 or dninid_{n-i}^-\geq n-i, and either dii+1d_i^-\geq i+1 or dni+nid_{n-i}^+\geq n-i, then DD contains a Hamilton cycle. This is the proposed directed analogue of Chvátal's theorem; the source describes the asymptotic version as a consequence of its results, while the exact conjecture is not resolved here.

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Primary source

Zhilan Wang and Jin Yan, “The H-linkage problems in sparse robustly expanding digraphs”, arXiv:2604.27452 (2026).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2010–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1006.0590.

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