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Independent Detour Transversals in 3-Deficient Digraphs

Susan van Aardt, Marietjie Frick, Joy Singleton (2013)

Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

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In 1982 Laborde, Payan and Xuong [Independent sets and longest directed paths in digraphs, in: Graphs and other combinatorial topics (Prague, 1982) 173-177 (Teubner-Texte Math., 59 1983)] conjectured that every digraph has an independent detour transversal (IDT), i.e. an independent set which intersects every longest path. Havet [Stable set meeting every longest path, Discrete Math. 289 (2004) 169-173] showed that the conjecture holds for digraphs with independence number two. A digraph...

A path(ological) partition problem

Izak Broere, Michael Dorfling, Jean E. Dunbar, Marietjie Frick (1998)

Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

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Let τ(G) denote the number of vertices in a longest path of the graph G and let k₁ and k₂ be positive integers such that τ(G) = k₁ + k₂. The question at hand is whether the vertex set V(G) can be partitioned into two subsets V₁ and V₂ such that τ(G[V₁] ) ≤ k₁ and τ(G[V₂] ) ≤ k₂. We show that several classes of graphs have this partition property.

Monochromatic paths and monochromatic sets of arcs in bipartite tournaments

Hortensia Galeana-Sánchez, R. Rojas-Monroy, B. Zavala (2009)

Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

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We call the digraph D an m-coloured digraph if the arcs of D are coloured with m colours and all of them are used. 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 for every pair of vertices there is no monochromatic path between them and for every vertex v in V(D)∖N there is a monochromatic path from v to some vertex in N. We denote by A⁺(u) the set of arcs of D that have u as...

Detour chromatic numbers

Marietjie Frick, Frank Bullock (2001)

Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

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The nth detour chromatic number, χₙ(G) of a graph G is the minimum number of colours required to colour the vertices of G such that no path with more than n vertices is monocoloured. The number of vertices in a longest path of G is denoted by τ( G). We conjecture that χₙ(G) ≤ ⎡(τ(G))/n⎤ for every graph G and every n ≥ 1 and we prove results that support the conjecture. We also present some sufficient conditions for a graph to have nth chromatic number at most 2.

γ-Cycles And Transitivity By Monochromatic Paths In Arc-Coloured Digraphs

Enrique Casas-Bautista, Hortensia Galeana-Sánchez, Rocío Rojas-Monroy (2013)

Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

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We call the digraph D an m-coloured digraph if its arcs are coloured with m colours. If D is an m-coloured digraph and a ∈ A(D), colour(a) will denote the colour has been used on a. A path (or a cycle) is called monochromatic if all of its arcs are coloured alike. A γ-cycle in D is a sequence of vertices, say γ = (u0, u1, . . . , un), such that ui ≠ uj if i ≠ j and for every i ∈ 0, 1, . . . , n there is a uiui+1-monochromatic path in D and there is no ui+1ui-monochromatic path in D (the...

Exponents of two-colored digraphs

Yan Ling Shao, Yubin Gao (2009)

Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal

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We consider the primitive two-colored digraphs whose uncolored digraph has n + s vertices and consists of one n -cycle and one ( n - 3 ) -cycle. We give bounds on the exponents and characterizations of extremal two-colored digraphs.