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A Minimax Equality Related to the Longest Directed Path in an Acyclic Graph

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

K. Vidyasankar  and
D. H. Younger
K. Vidyasankar
Affiliation:
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
D. H. Younger
Affiliation:
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
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As an analog of a recently established minimax equality for directed graphs [1], I. Simon has suggested that the following be investigated.

1.1. For a finite acyclic directed graph G, a minimum collection of directed coboundaries whose union is the edge set of G has cardinality equal to that of a maximum strong matching of G.

This minimax equality is here proved, using a characterization of a maximum strong matching of an acyclic graph as the set of edges of a longest directed path in the graph.

The terms employed in the above theorem are defined as follows. Let G be a finite directed graph with vertex set VG and edge set eG

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , 01 April 1975 , pp. 348 - 351
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1975

References

1. Lucchesi, C. L. and Younger, D. H., A minimax theorem for directed graphs (to appear).Google Scholar