Partitioning digraphs with outdegree at least 4

Scott asked the question to determine $c_d$ such that if $D$ is a digraph with $m$ arcs and minimum outdegree $d\ge 2$ then $V(D)$ has a partition $V_1, V_2$ such that $\min\left\{e(V_1,V_2),e(V_2, V_1)\right\}\geq c_dm$, where $e(V_1,V_2)$ (respectively, $e(V_2,V_1)$) is the number of arcs from $V_1$ to $V_2$ (respectively, $V_2$ to $V_1$). Lee, Loh, and Sudakov showed that $c_2=1/6+o(1)$ and $c_3=1/5+o(1)$, and conjectured that $c_d= \frac{d-1}{2(2d-1)}+o(1)$ for $d\ge 4$. In this paper, we show $c_4=3/14+o(1)$ and provide some partial results for $d\ge 5$.

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