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Problems and conjectures concerning connectivity, paths, trees and cycles in tournament-like digraphs. (English) Zbl 1207.05067
Summary: We collect a substantial number of challenging open problems and conjectures on connectivity, paths, trees and cycles in tournaments and classes of digraphs which contain tournaments as a subclass. The list is by no means exhaustive but is meant to show that the area has a large number of interesting open problems. We also mention problems for general digraphs when they are relevant in the context.

##### MSC:
 05C20 Directed graphs (digraphs), tournaments 05C40 Connectivity 05C38 Paths and cycles 05C05 Trees
##### Keywords:
generalizations of tournaments; paths
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