PACKING DIRECTED CIRCUITS EXACTLY

被引:19
作者
Guenin, Bertrand [1 ]
Thomas, Robin [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Waterloo, Fac Math, Dept Combinator & Optimizat, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
[2] Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Math, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
关键词
GRAPHS; THEOREM;
D O I
10.1007/s00493-011-1687-5
中图分类号
O1 [数学];
学科分类号
0701 ; 070101 ;
摘要
We give an "excluded minor" and a "structural" characterization of digraphs D that have the property that for every subdigraph H of D, the maximum number of disjoint circuits in H is equal to the minimum cardinality of a set T subset of V (H) such that H\T is acyclic.
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页码:397 / 421
页数:25
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