Switchings, extensions, and reductions in central digraphs

  • Authors:
  • André Kündgen;Gregor Leander;Carsten Thomassen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, California State University San Marcos, San Marcos, CA 92069, United States;Department of Mathematics, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark;Department of Mathematics, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

A directed graph is called central if its adjacency matrix A satisfies the equation A^2=J, where J is the matrix with a 1 in each entry. It has been conjectured that every central directed graph can be obtained from a standard example by a sequence of simple operations called switchings, and also that it can be obtained from a smaller one by an extension. We disprove these conjectures and present a general extension result which, in particular, shows that each counterexample extends to an infinite family.