{ "id": "1907.12614", "version": "v1", "published": "2019-07-29T19:39:53.000Z", "updated": "2019-07-29T19:39:53.000Z", "title": "Seymour's second-neighborhood conjecture from a different perspective", "authors": [ "Farid Bouya", "Bogdan Oporowski" ], "comment": "8 pages", "categories": [ "math.CO" ], "abstract": "Seymour's Second-Neighborhood Conjecture states that every directed graph whose underlying graph is simple has at least one vertex $v$ such that the number of vertices of out-distance $2$ from $v$ is at least as large as the number of vertices of out-distance $1$ from it. We present alternative statements of the conjecture in the language of linear algebra.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2019-07-29T19:39:53.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "05C20" ], "keywords": [ "seymours second-neighborhood conjecture states", "linear algebra", "out-distance", "perspective", "directed graph" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 8, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }