On splitting digraphs

Donglei Yang, Yandong Bai, Guanghui Wang, Jianliang Wu

Published 2017-07-12Version 1

In 1995, Stiebitz asked the following question: For any positive integers $s,t$, is there a finite integer $f(s,t)$ such that every digraph $D$ with minimum out-degree at least $f(s,t)$ admits a bipartition $(A, B)$ such that $A$ induces a subdigraph with minimum out-degree at least $s$ and $B$ induces a subdigraph with minimum out-degree at least $t$? We give an affirmative answer for tournaments, bipartite tournaments, multipartite tournaments, and digraphs with bounded maximum in-degrees. In particular, we show that for every $0<\epsilon<\frac{1}{4}$, there exists an integer $\delta_0$ such that every tournament with minimum out-degree at least $\delta_0$ admits a bisection $(A, B)$, so that each vertex has at least $(\frac{1}{4}-\epsilon)$ of its out-neighbors in $A$, and in $B$ as well.