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arxiv: 1806.08809 · v2 · pith:XC6EEWW2new · submitted 2018-06-22 · 🧮 math.CO

Packing and covering directed triangles

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keywords directedtrianglesaffirmativelyanswersarc-disjointarcscasecovering
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We prove that if a directed multigraph $D$ has at most $t$ pairwise arc-disjoint directed triangles, then there exists a set of less than $2t$ arcs in $D$ which meets all directed triangles in $D$, except in the trivial case $t=0$. This answers affirmatively a question of Tuza from 1990.

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