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 Author(s): Bondy, J. Adrian Mercier, Fabien
 Subject: Graph Theory
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 Posted by: fhavet on: March 7th, 2013

\begin{question} Are there any switching-nonreconstructible digraphs on twelve or more vertices? \end{question}

To \emph{switch} a vertex of a digraph is to reverse all the arcs incident to it. The digraph so obtained is called a \emph{switching} of the digraph. The collection of switchings of a digraph $D$ is called the \emph{switching deck} of $D$. A digraph is \emph{switching-reconstructible} if every digraph with the same deck as $D$ is isomorphic to $D$.

The problem is a directed analogue of \OPrefnum[switching reconstruction of graphs]{46951} in which one complements the edges at a vertex, instead of reversing each of its incident arcs.

Bondy and Mercier proved an analogue to Stanley's result for switching reconstruction of graphs. They proved that a digraph on $n$ vertices is switching-reconstructible if $n \not\equiv 0 (\mod 4)$. They also proved many other common results for both switching reconstructions.

One significant difference between the directed and undirected problems is that there exist switching-nonreconstructible directed graphs on eight vertices, while \OPrefnum[Stanley's conjecture]{46951} that every simple graph on five or more vertices is switching-reconstructible.

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## Bibliography

*[BM] J. A. Bondy and F. Mercier. Switching reconstruction of digraphs. J. Graph Theory 67(2011), no. 4, 332-348.

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