-favouring Eulerian trails in digraphs
Let G = (V,A) be a directed graph. With any subset X of V is associated the directed subgraph G[X] = (X,A ∩ (X×X)) of G induced by X. A subset X of V is an interval of G provided that for a,b ∈ X and x ∈ V∖X, (a,x) ∈ A if and only if (b,x) ∈ A, and similarly for (x,a) and (x,b). For example ∅, V, and {x}, where x ∈ V, are intervals of G which are the trivial intervals. A directed graph is indecomposable if all its intervals are trivial. Given an integer k > 0, a directed graph G = (V,A) is called...
For n ≥ 4, the complete n-vertex multidigraph with arc multiplicity λ is proved to have a decomposition into directed paths of arbitrarily prescribed lengths ≤ n - 1 and different from n - 2, unless n = 5, λ = 1, and all lengths are to be n - 1 = 4. For λ = 1, a more general decomposition exists; namely, up to five paths of length n - 2 can also be prescribed.
An arc decomposition of the complete digraph Kₙ into t isomorphic subdigraphs is generalized to the case where the numerical divisibility condition is not satisfied. Two sets of nearly tth parts are constructively proved to be nonempty. These are the floor tth class ( Kₙ-R)/t and the ceiling tth class ( Kₙ+S)/t, where R and S comprise (possibly copies of) arcs whose number is the smallest possible. The existence of cyclically 1-generated decompositions of Kₙ into cycles and into paths is characterized....
A digraph such that for each its vertex, vertices of the out-neighbourhood have different in-degrees and vertices of the in-neighbourhood have different out-degrees, will be called an HI-digraph. In this paper, we give a characterization of sequences of pairs of out- and in-degrees of HI-digraphs.
The dichromatic number dc(D) of a digraph D is the smallest number of colours needed to colour the vertices of D so that no monochromatic directed cycle is created. In this paper the problem of computing the dichromatic number of a Zykov-sum of digraphs over a digraph D is reduced to that of computing a multicovering number of an hypergraph H₁(D) associated to D in a natural way. This result allows us to construct an infinite family of pairwise non isomorphic vertex-critical k-dichromatic circulant...
A digraph G is a difference digraph iff there exists an S ⊂ N⁺ such that G is isomorphic to the digraph DD(S) = (V,A), where V = S and A = {(i,j):i,j ∈ V ∧ i-j ∈ V}.For some classes of digraphs, e.g. alternating trees, oriented cycles, tournaments etc., it is known, under which conditions these digraphs are difference digraphs (cf. [5]). We generalize the so-called source-join (a construction principle to obtain a new difference digraph from two given ones (cf. [5])) and construct a difference labelling...
We show that any digraph on vertices and with not less than arcs is contractible onto .