J4 ›› 2013, Vol. 51 ›› Issue (02): 241-243.

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A Sufficient Condition for Digraphs with Girth at Most 4

LIANG Hao1, XU Junming2   

  1. 1. College of Mathematics, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu 611130, China;2. School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
  • Received:2012-06-06 Online:2013-03-26 Published:2013-03-27
  • Contact: LIANG Hao E-mail:lianghao@mail.ustc.edu.cn

Abstract:

Using some combinatorial techniques, the authors  gave an approximate result related to CaccettaHaggkvist conjecture, that is,  a sufficient condition α≥0.288 66  for which any digraph on n vertices with minimum outdegree at least αn contains a directed cycle of length at most 4.

Key words: digraph, directed cycle, outdegree, transitive triangle, sufficient condition

CLC Number: 

  • O157.5