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Directed Graphs (Digraphs) (cont)

Terminology for digraphs …

Directed path:   sequence of n ≥ 2 vertices v1 → v2 → … → vn

  • where (vi,vi+1) ∈ edges(G) for all vi,vi+1 in sequence
  • if v1 = vn, we have a directed cycle
Reachability:   w is reachable from v if ∃ directed path v,…,w