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Seymour's Second Neighborhood Conjecture

A dense case, not the conjecture: it remains open in general. The concrete gain is on the size of any counterexample - combined with the known minimum-outdegree results, this raises the best known lower bound on the order of a counterexample from 16 to 17, and to 19 conditional on the 2026 preprint of Sadhukhan, Sandeep and Sen. The novelty against the earlier dense-case work is that no structure is prescribed on the missing edges.

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combinatoricsAug 12, 2026Significance 30/100Registry: unreviewed

Seymour's Second Neighborhood Conjecture

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A dense case, not the conjecture: it remains open in general. The concrete gain is on the size of any counterexample - combined with the known minimum-outdegree results, this raises the best known lower bound on the order of a counterexample from 16 to 17, and to 19 conditional on the 2026 preprint of Sadhukhan, Sandeep and Sen. The novelty against the earlier dense-case work is that no structure is prescribed on th…

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A dense case, not the conjecture: it remains open in general. The concrete gain is on the size of any counterexample - combined with the known minimum-outdegree results, this raises the best known lower bound on the order of a counterexample from 16 to 17, and to 19 conditional on the 2026 preprint of Sadhukhan, Sandeep and Sen. The novelty against the earlier dense-case work is that no structure is prescribed on the missing edges.

A dense case, not the conjecture: it remains open in general. The concrete gain is on the size of any counterexample - combined with the known minimum-outdegree results, this raises the best known lower bound on the order of a counterexample from 16 to 17, and to 19 conditional on the 2026 preprint of Sadhukhan, Sandeep and Sen. The novelty against the earlier dense-case work is that no structure is prescribed on the missing edges.

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