Exixtence of vertices of local connectivityk in digraphs of large outdegree

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For every positive integerk, there is a positive integerf(k) such that every finite digraph of minimum outdegreef(k) contains verticesx, y joined byk openly disjoint paths.

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Mader, W. Exixtence of vertices of local connectivityk in digraphs of large outdegree. Combinatorica 15, 533–539 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01192525

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