Monochromatic paths and monochromatic sets of arcs in quasi-transitive digraphs

Hortensia Galeana-Sánchez; R. Rojas-Monroy; B. Zavala

Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory (2010)

  • Volume: 30, Issue: 4, page 545-553
  • ISSN: 2083-5892

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Let D be a digraph, V(D) and A(D) will denote the sets of vertices and arcs of D, respectively. We call the digraph D an m-coloured digraph if each arc of D is coloured by an element of {1,2,...,m} where m ≥ 1. A directed path is called monochromatic if all of its arcs are coloured alike. A set N of vertices of D is called a kernel by monochromatic paths if there is no monochromatic path between two vertices of N and if for every vertex v not in N there is a monochromatic path from v to some vertex in N. A digraph D is called a quasi-transitive digraph if (u,v) ∈ A(D) and (v,w) ∈ A(D) implies (u,w) ∈ A(D) or (w,u) ∈ A(D). We prove that if D is an m-coloured quasi-transitive digraph such that for every vertex u of D the set of arcs that have u as initial end point is monochromatic and D contains no C₃ (the 3-coloured directed cycle of length 3), then D has a kernel by monochromatic paths.

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Hortensia Galeana-Sánchez, R. Rojas-Monroy, and B. Zavala. "Monochromatic paths and monochromatic sets of arcs in quasi-transitive digraphs." Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory 30.4 (2010): 545-553. <http://eudml.org/doc/270827>.

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