id: 03926944 dt: j an: 03926944 au: Bloom, G.S.; Hsu, D.F. ti: On graceful directed graphs. so: SIAM J. Algebraic Discrete Methods 6, 519-536 (1985). py: 1985 pu: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA la: EN cc: ut: graceful directed graphs; graceful numbering; graph numberings ci: li: doi:10.1137/0606051 ab: This very interesting paper introduces the concept of graceful directed graphs as follows. A digraph D with e arcs is numbered by assigning a distinct integer value h(v) from $\{$ 0,1,...,e$\}$ to each node v. Each arc (u,v) receives a value $h(u,v)=h(v)-h(u)$ (mod e$+1)$. If the arc values are all distinct and nonzero, then the numbering h is graceful, and a digraph is graceful if it has a graceful numbering. Properties and examples of this new class of graph numberings are presented. Applications of various algebraic structures for generating graceful digraphs are made. Some fundamental questions and conjectures are presented. rv: P.Slater