γ-Cycles In Arc-Colored Digraphs

Hortensia Galeana-Sánchez, Guadalupe Gaytán-Gómez, and Rocío Rojas-Monroy. "γ-Cycles In Arc-Colored Digraphs." Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory 36.1 (2016): 103-116. <http://eudml.org/doc/276971>.

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abstract = {We call a digraph D an m-colored digraph if the arcs of D are colored with m colors. A directed path (or a directed cycle) is called monochromatic if all of its arcs are colored alike. A subdigraph H in D is called rainbow if all of its arcs have different colors. A set N ⊆ V (D) is said to be a kernel by monochromatic paths of D if it satisfies the two following conditions: for every pair of different vertices u, v ∈ N there is no monochromatic path in D between them, and for every vertex x ∈ V (D) − N there is a vertex y ∈ N such that there is an xy-monochromatic path in D. A γ-cycle in D is a sequence of different vertices γ = (u0, u1, . . . , un, u0) such that for every i ∈ \{0, 1, . . . , n\}: there is a uiui+1-monochromatic path, and there is no ui+1ui-monochromatic path. The addition over the indices of the vertices of γ is taken modulo (n + 1). If D is an m-colored digraph, then the closure of D, denoted by ℭ(D), is the m-colored multidigraph defined as follows: V (ℭ (D)) = V (D), A(ℭ (D)) = A(D) ∪ \{(u, v) with color i | there exists a uv-monochromatic path colored i contained in D\}. In this work, we prove the following result. Let D be a finite m-colored digraph which satisfies that there is a partition C = C1 ∪ C2 of the set of colors of D such that: D[Ĉi] (the subdigraph spanned by the arcs with colors in Ci) contains no γ-cycles for i ∈ \{1, 2\}; If ℭ (D) contains a rainbow C3 = (x0, z, w, x0) involving colors of C1 and C2, then (x0, w) ∈ A(ℭ (D)) or (z, x0) ∈ A(ℭ (D)); If ℭ (D) contains a rainbow P3 = (u, z, w, x0) involving colors of C1 and C2, then at least one of the following pairs of vertices is an arc in ℭ (D): (u, w), (w, u), (x0, u), (u, x0), (x0, w), (z, u), (z, x0). Then D has a kernel by monochromatic paths. This theorem can be applied to all those digraphs that contain no γ-cycles. Generalizations of many previous results are obtained as a direct consequence of this theorem.},
author = {Hortensia Galeana-Sánchez, Guadalupe Gaytán-Gómez, Rocío Rojas-Monroy},
journal = {Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory},
keywords = {digraph; kernel; kernel by monochromatic paths; γ-cycle; -cycle},
language = {eng},
number = {1},
pages = {103-116},
title = {γ-Cycles In Arc-Colored Digraphs},
url = {http://eudml.org/doc/276971},
volume = {36},
year = {2016},
}

TY - JOUR
AU - Hortensia Galeana-Sánchez
AU - Guadalupe Gaytán-Gómez
AU - Rocío Rojas-Monroy
TI - γ-Cycles In Arc-Colored Digraphs
JO - Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory
PY - 2016
VL - 36
IS - 1
SP - 103
EP - 116
AB - We call a digraph D an m-colored digraph if the arcs of D are colored with m colors. A directed path (or a directed cycle) is called monochromatic if all of its arcs are colored alike. A subdigraph H in D is called rainbow if all of its arcs have different colors. A set N ⊆ V (D) is said to be a kernel by monochromatic paths of D if it satisfies the two following conditions: for every pair of different vertices u, v ∈ N there is no monochromatic path in D between them, and for every vertex x ∈ V (D) − N there is a vertex y ∈ N such that there is an xy-monochromatic path in D. A γ-cycle in D is a sequence of different vertices γ = (u0, u1, . . . , un, u0) such that for every i ∈ {0, 1, . . . , n}: there is a uiui+1-monochromatic path, and there is no ui+1ui-monochromatic path. The addition over the indices of the vertices of γ is taken modulo (n + 1). If D is an m-colored digraph, then the closure of D, denoted by ℭ(D), is the m-colored multidigraph defined as follows: V (ℭ (D)) = V (D), A(ℭ (D)) = A(D) ∪ {(u, v) with color i | there exists a uv-monochromatic path colored i contained in D}. In this work, we prove the following result. Let D be a finite m-colored digraph which satisfies that there is a partition C = C1 ∪ C2 of the set of colors of D such that: D[Ĉi] (the subdigraph spanned by the arcs with colors in Ci) contains no γ-cycles for i ∈ {1, 2}; If ℭ (D) contains a rainbow C3 = (x0, z, w, x0) involving colors of C1 and C2, then (x0, w) ∈ A(ℭ (D)) or (z, x0) ∈ A(ℭ (D)); If ℭ (D) contains a rainbow P3 = (u, z, w, x0) involving colors of C1 and C2, then at least one of the following pairs of vertices is an arc in ℭ (D): (u, w), (w, u), (x0, u), (u, x0), (x0, w), (z, u), (z, x0). Then D has a kernel by monochromatic paths. This theorem can be applied to all those digraphs that contain no γ-cycles. Generalizations of many previous results are obtained as a direct consequence of this theorem.
LA - eng
KW - digraph; kernel; kernel by monochromatic paths; γ-cycle; -cycle
UR - http://eudml.org/doc/276971
ER -