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   <dc:title>Nonexistence of almost Moore digraphs of degrees 4 and 5 with self-repeats</dc:title>
   <dc:creator>López Lorenzo, Nacho</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Messegué Buisan, Arnau</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Miret Biosca, Josep Maria</dc:creator>
   <dc:contributor>Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Ciències de la Computació</dc:contributor>
   <dc:subject>Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Informàtica teòrica</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Matemàtica discreta::Teoria de grafs</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Directed graphs</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Grafs dirigits</dc:subject>
   <dc:description>An almost Moore (d,k)-digraph is a regular digraph of degree d>1, diameter k>1 and order N(d,k)=d+d2+⋯+dk. So far, their existence has only been shown for k=2, whilst it is known that there are no such digraphs for k=3, 4 and for d=2, 3 when k≥3. Furthermore, under certain assumptions, the nonexistence for the remaining cases has also been shown. In this paper, we prove that (4,k) and (5,k)-almost Moore digraphs with self-repeats do not exist for k≥5.</dc:description>
   <dc:description>Nacho López: Supported in part by grants PID2020-115442RB-I00 and 2021 SGR-00434.&#xd;
Arnau Messegué: Supported in part by grants Margarita Sala and 2021SGR-00434.&#xd;
Josep M. Miret: Supported in part by grants PID2021-124613OB-I00 and 2021 SGR-00434.</dc:description>
   <dc:description>Peer Reviewed</dc:description>
   <dc:description>Postprint (published version)</dc:description>
   <dc:date>2023-03-24</dc:date>
   <dc:type>Article</dc:type>
   <dc:identifier>López, N.; Messegue, A.; Miret, J. Nonexistence of almost Moore digraphs of degrees 4 and 5 with self-repeats. "Electronic journal of combinatorics", 24 Març 2023, vol. 30, núm. 1, article P1.56, p. 1-15.</dc:identifier>
   <dc:identifier>1077-8926</dc:identifier>
   <dc:identifier>https://hdl.handle.net/2117/386781</dc:identifier>
   <dc:identifier>10.37236/11335</dc:identifier>
   <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
   <dc:relation>https://www.combinatorics.org/ojs/index.php/eljc/article/view/v30i1p56</dc:relation>
   <dc:rights>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/</dc:rights>
   <dc:rights>Open Access</dc:rights>
   <dc:rights>Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International</dc:rights>
   <dc:format>15 p.</dc:format>
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