Seymour's second-neighborhood conjecture from a different perspective

Abstract

Seymour's Second-Neighborhood Conjecture states that every directed graph whose underlying graph is simple has at least one vertex $v$ such that the number of vertices of out-distance $2$ from $v$ is at least as large as the number of vertices of out-distance $1$ from it. We present alternative statements of the conjecture in the language of linear algebra.