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Characterizations of competition multigraphs
AbstractThe notion of a competition multigraph was introduced by C. A. Anderson, K. F. Jones, J. R. Lundgren, and T. A. McKee [C. A. Anderson, K. F. Jones, J. R. Lundgren, and T. A. McKee: Competition multigraphs and the multicompetition number, Ars Combinatoria 29B (1990) 185–192] as a generalization of the competition graphs of digraphs.In this note, we give a characterization of competition multigraphs of arbitrary digraphs and a characterization of competition multigraphs of loopless digraphs. Moreover, we characterize multigraphs whose multicompetition numbers are at most m, where m is a given nonnegative integer and give characterizations of competition multihypergraphs
The competition numbers of ternary Hamming graphs
It is known to be a hard problem to compute the competition number k(G) of a
graph G in general. Park and Sano [13] gave the exact values of the competition
numbers of Hamming graphs H(n,q) if or . In
this paper, we give an explicit formula of the competition numbers of ternary
Hamming graphs.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figure