Multi-Eulerian tours of directed graphs (Q281626)

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Multi-Eulerian tours of directed graphs
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    Multi-Eulerian tours of directed graphs (English)
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    11 May 2016
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    Summary: Not every graph has an Eulerian tour. But every finite, strongly connected graph has a multi-Eulerian tour, which we define as a closed path that uses each directed edge at least once, and uses edges \(e\) and \(f\) the same number of times whenever \(\operatorname{tail}(e)=\operatorname{tail}(f)\). This definition leads to a simple generalization of the BEST Theorem. We then show that the minimal length of a multi-Eulerian tour is bounded in terms of the Pham index, a measure of `Eulerianness'.
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    BEST theorem
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    coEulerian digraph
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    Eulerian digraph
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    Eulerian path
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    Laplacian
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    Markov chain tree theorem
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    matrix-tree theorem
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    oriented spanning tree
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    period vector
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    Pham index
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    rotor walk
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