Immersing complete digraphs

  • Authors:
  • Matt DeVos;Jessica McDonald;Bojan Mohar;Diego Scheide

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • European Journal of Combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We consider the problem of immersing the complete digraph on t vertices in a simple digraph. For Eulerian digraphs, we show that such an immersion always exists whenever the minimum degree is at least t(t-1), and, for t@?4, minimum degree at least t-1 suffices. On the other hand, we show that there exist non-Eulerian digraphs with all vertices of arbitrarily high indegree and outdegree which do not contain an immersion of the complete digraph on three vertices. As a side result, we obtain a construction of digraphs with large outdegree in which all cycles have odd length, simplifying a former construction of such graphs by Thomassen.