antidirected

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adjective

Such that the canonical mapping is injective.

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Meanings

adjectiveantidirected (not comparable)
  1. not comparablemathematicsSuch that the canonical mapping is injective.
  2. not comparablegraph theoryHaving arcs that alternate between forward and backward arcs.

    A digraph D is antistrong if it contains an antidirected (x,y)-trail starting and ending with a forward arc for every choice of x,y#92;inV(D).

    2016, Jorgen Bang-Jensen, Stephane Bessy, Bill Jackson, Matthias Kriesell, “Antistrong digraphs”, in arXiv

Origin

From anti- + directed.

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