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Discrete Applied Mathematics 56 (2-3) (1995) 157-179
Bipolar orientations revisited.
Hubert De Fraysseix 1, Patrice Ossona De Mendez 1, Pierre Rosenstiehl 1
(1995)

Acyclic orientations with exactly one source and one sink - the so-called bipolar orientations - arise in many graph algorithms and specially in graph drawing. The fundamental properties of these orientations are explored in terms of circuits, cocircuits and also in terms of ``angles'' in the planar case. Classical results get here new simple proofs; new results concern the extension of partial orientations, exhaustive enumerations, the existence of deletable and contractable edges, and continuous transitions between bipolar orientations.
1 :  Centre d'analyse et de mathématique sociale (CAMS)
CNRS : UMR8557 – École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales [EHESS]
Mathématiques/Combinatoire
graph theory – bipolar orientation