How statement and proof provenance work
The first chip identifies the source of the statement or construction; the second identifies the source of its local proof or verification.
- Literature-sourced: the exact statement appears in a cited source; only wording and notation differ.
- AI-adapted: a semantically identical restatement of literature-sourced material, modulo indexing, notation, and boundary cases adopted by the library.
- AI-generated: a genuinely novel statement formulated by AI, with no source for the claim itself.
These labels describe origin, not correctness: citations and verification chips remain separate evidence.
Directed walks, trails, paths and cycles, and strong connectivity
Definition
Let be a finite digraph (Multigraphs, loops and directed graphs as variants distinct from the default finite simple graph). A directed walk of length is a vertex list such that for every . It is closed when .
A directed trail is a directed walk whose traversed arcs are distinct. A directed path is a directed walk whose vertices are distinct. A directed cycle is a closed directed walk of length in which are distinct. The lower bound agrees with the library's undirected cycle convention in Walks, closed walks, trails, paths and cycles, with length equal to the number of traversed edges.
A digraph is strongly connected when its vertex set is nonempty and for every ordered pair of vertices there is a directed path from to . It is weakly connected as defined through its underlying graph in Degree in a multigraph, indegree and outdegree in a digraph, and their underlying connectivity.
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Used by
- A tournament is an orientation of a complete finite graph Definition
- Arc-disjoint, edge-disjoint and internally vertex-disjoint path families and their local separators Definition
- Euler trails and Euler circuits in multigraphs and digraphs Definition
- Finite integral networks, feasible flows, values, cuts and residual networks Definition
- A transitive tournament has a directed Hamilton path and no directed cycle Example
- The directed 3-cycle is a strongly connected tournament with a directed Hamilton cycle Example
- A tournament vertex having an in-neighbour and an out-neighbour on a directed cycle can be inserted into that cycle Lemma
- An integral flow decomposes into source-sink path flows and directed cycle flows; unit capacities make the paths arc-disjoint Lemma
- Augmenting by the residual bottleneck preserves feasibility and increases the flow value Lemma
- Edge-disjoint closed trails sharing a vertex can be spliced into one closed trail Lemma
- A finite digraph without isolated vertices has a directed Euler circuit if and only if it is weakly connected and every indegree equals the corresponding outdegree Theorem
- Camion's theorem: every strongly connected tournament on at least three vertices has a directed Hamilton cycle Theorem
- Redei's theorem: every nonempty tournament has a directed Hamilton path Theorem
Dependency tree · next 3 levels
Direct dependencies and their dependencies through the next three levels: 17 results over 12 levels. An arrow runs from a result to what uses it, and this result sits at the bottom with a heavier outline. Click the chart to enlarge it.
Sources
- Applied Combinatorics, Directed Graphs (standard reference, not scraped)