On a conjecture of Knuth about forward and back arcs

01/13/2023
by   Zipei Nie, et al.
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Following Janson's method, we prove a conjecture of Knuth: the numbers of forward and back arcs for the depth-first search (DFS) in a digraph with a geometric outdegree distribution have the same distribution.

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