Feedback vertex sets of digraphs with bounded maximum degree

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Authors: Jiangdong Ai, Gregory Gutin, Xiangzhou Liu, Anders Yeo, Yacong Zhou
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Abstract

A digraph $D$ is an oriented graph if $D$ does not have a pair of opposite arcs. The degree of a vertex $v$ of $D$ is the sum of the in-degree and out-degree of $v.$ Let $fvs(D)$ be the minimum number of vertices whose deletion from $D$ makes it acyclic. Let $D$ be a digraph with $n$ vertices and maximum degree $Δ$. We prove the following bounds. If $D$ is an oriented graph, then $fvs(D)\leq \frac{3n}{7}$ when $Δ\le 4$ and $fvs(D)\leq \frac{n}{2}$ when $Δ\le 5$. If $D$ is a connected digraph, $Δ\le 4$ and $D$ is not obtained from an odd undirected cycle by replacing every edge with the pair of opposite arcs with the same endvertices, then $fvs(D)\leq \frac{n}{2}$. If $D$ is an arbitrary digraph with $Δ\le 5$ then $fvs(D)\leq \frac{2n}{3}.$ Note that all the above bounds are tight.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Advanced Graph Theory Research Limits and Structures in Graph Theory Graph Labeling and Dimension Problems

Publication details

Journal / source
Discrete Mathematics
Volume
350
Issue
2
Pages
115390–115390
Publication date
27 August 2026
Language
EN