On cycles through two arcs in strong multipartite tournaments
Alexandru Ioan Tomescu
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Alexandru Ioan Tomescu
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A multipartite tournament is an orientation of a complete $c$-partite graph. In [L. Volkmann, A remark on cycles through an arc in strongly connected multipartite tournaments, Appl. Math. Lett. 20 (2007) 1148--1150], Volkmann proved that a strongly connected $c$-partite tournament with $c \ge 3$ contains an arc that belongs to a directed cycle of length $m$ for every $m \in \{3, 4, \ldots, c\}$. He also conjectured the existence of three arcs with this property. In this note, we prove the existence of two such arcs.
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A multipartite tournament is an orientation of a complete $c$-partite graph. In [L. Volkmann, A remark on cycles through an arc in strongly connected multipartite tournaments, Appl. Math. Lett. 20 (2007) 1148--1150], Volkmann proved that a strongly connected $c$-partite tournament with $c \ge 3$ contains an arc that belongs to a directed cycle of length $m$ for every $m \in \{3, 4, \ldots, c\}$. He also conjectured the existence of three arcs with this property. In this note, we prove the existence of two such arcs.
Key concepts: Tournament, Multipartite, Arc (geometry), Combinatorics, Mathematics, Graph, Strongly connected component, Property (philosophy)