Importance: High ✭✭✭
 Author(s): Hoang, Chinh T. Reed, Bruce A.
 Subject: Graph Theory » Directed Graphs
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 Posted by: fhavet on: March 11th, 2013

\begin{conjecture} Every digraph in which each vertex has outdegree at least $k$ contains $k$ directed cycles $C_1, \ldots, C_k$ such that $C_j$ meets $\cup_{i=1}^{j-1}C_i$ in at most one vertex, $2 \leq j \leq k$. \end{conjecture}

This conjecture is not even known to be true for $k=3$. In the case $k=2$, Thomassen proved [T] that every digraph with minimum outdegree 2 has two directed cycles intersecting on a vertex.

This conjecture would imply the \OPrefnum[Caccetta-Häggkvist Conjecture]{46385}.

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## Bibliography

*[HR] C.T. Hoàng and B. Reed, A note on short cycles in digraphs, Discrete Math., 66 (1987), 103-107.

[T] C. Thomassen, The 2-linkage problem for acyclic digraphs, Discrete Math., 55 (1985), 73-87.

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