Complete classification of tournaments having a disjoint union of directed paths as a minimum feedback arc set

نویسندگان

  • Garth Isaak
  • Darren A. Narayan
چکیده

A feedback arc set of a digraph is a set of arcs whose reversal makes the resulting digraph acyclic. Given a tournament with a disjoint union of directed paths as a feedback arc set, we present necessary and sufficient conditions for this feedback arc set to have minimum size. We will present a construction for tournaments where the difference between the size of a minimum feedback arc set and the size of the largest collection of arc disjoint cycles can be made arbitrarily large. We will also make a

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of Graph Theory

دوره 45  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2004