Solving the kernel perfect problem by (simple) forbidden subdigraphs for digraphs in some families of generalized tournaments and generalized bipartite tournaments

A digraph such that every proper induced subdigraph has a kernel is said to be \emph{kernel perfect} (KP for short) (\emph{critical kernel imperfect} (CKI for short) resp.) if the digraph has a kernel (does not have a kernel resp.). The unique CKI-tournament is $\overrightarrow{C}_3$ and the unique KP-tournaments are the transitive tournaments, however bipartite tournaments are KP. In this paper we characterize the CKI- and KP-digraphs for the following families of digraphs: locally in-/out-semicomplete, asymmetric arc-locally in-/out-semicomplete, asymmetric $3$-quasi-transitive and asymmetric $3$-anti-quasi-transitive $TT_3$-free and we state that the problem of determining whether a digraph of one of these families is CKI is polynomial, giving a solution to a problem closely related to the following conjecture posted by Bang-Jensen in 1998: the kernel problem is polynomially solvable for locally in-semicomplete digraphs.Comment: 13 pages and 5 figure

Cycle-pancyclism in bipartite tournaments II

Let T be a hamiltonian bipartite tournament with n vertices, γ a hamiltonian directed cycle of T, and k an even number. In this paper the following question is studied: What is the maximum intersection with γ of a directed cycle of length k contained in T[V(γ)]? It is proved that for an even k in the range (n+6)/2 ≤ k ≤ n-2, there exists a directed cycle $C_{h(k)}$ of length h(k), h(k) ∈ {k,k-2} with $|A(C_{h(k)}) ∩ A(γ)| ≥ h(k)-4$ and the result is best possible. In a previous paper a similar result for 4 ≤ k ≤ (n+4)/2 was proved