Title
Independent arborescences in directed graphs.
Abstract
As a vertex-disjoint analogue of Edmonds’ arc-disjoint arborescences theorem, it was conjectured that given a directed graph D with a specified vertex r, there are k spanning arborescences rooted at r such that for every vertex v of D the k directed walks from r to v in these arborescences are internally vertex-disjoint if and only if for every vertex v of D there are k internally vertex-disjoint directed walks from r to v. Whitty (1987) [10] affirmatively settled this conjecture for k≤2, and Huck (1995) [6] constructed counterexamples for k≥3, and Huck (1999) [7] proved that the conjecture is true for every k when D is acyclic. In this paper, we generalize these results by using the concept of “convexity” which is introduced by Fujishige (2010) [4].
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.disc.2012.11.006
Discrete Mathematics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Arborescences,Packing,Vertex-disjoint paths,Convex sets
Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Convexity,Vertex (geometry),Directed graph,Counterexample,Conjecture,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
313
4
0012-365X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
6
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
András Frank1753163.71
Satoru Fujishige282896.94
Naoyuki Kamiyama38023.40
naoki katoh41101187.43