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Digraphs and homomorphisms: Cores, colorings, and constructions
A natural digraph analogue of the graph-theoretic concept of an `independent set\u27 is that of an acyclic set, namely a set of vertices not spanning a directed cycle. Hence a digraph analogue of a graph coloring is a decomposition of the vertex set into acyclic sets
Uniquely D-colourable digraphs with large girth
Let C and D be digraphs. A mapping is a C-colouring if for
every arc of D, either is an arc of C or , and the
preimage of every vertex of C induces an acyclic subdigraph in D. We say that D
is C-colourable if it admits a C-colouring and that D is uniquely C-colourable
if it is surjectively C-colourable and any two C-colourings of D differ by an
automorphism of C. We prove that if a digraph D is not C-colourable, then there
exist digraphs of arbitrarily large girth that are D-colourable but not
C-colourable. Moreover, for every digraph D that is uniquely D-colourable,
there exists a uniquely D-colourable digraph of arbitrarily large girth. In
particular, this implies that for every rational number , there are
uniquely circularly r-colourable digraphs with arbitrarily large girth.Comment: 21 pages, 0 figures To be published in Canadian Journal of
Mathematic
Distance-two labelings of digraphs
For positive integers , an -labeling of a digraph is a
function from into the set of nonnegative integers such that
if is adjacent to in and if
is of distant two to in . Elements of the image of are called
labels. The -labeling problem is to determine the
-number of a digraph , which
is the minimum of the maximum label used in an -labeling of . This
paper studies - numbers of digraphs. In particular, we
determine - numbers of digraphs whose longest dipath is of
length at most 2, and -numbers of ditrees having dipaths
of length 4. We also give bounds for -numbers of bipartite
digraphs whose longest dipath is of length 3. Finally, we present a linear-time
algorithm for determining -numbers of ditrees whose
longest dipath is of length 3.Comment: 12 pages; presented in SIAM Coference on Discrete Mathematics, June
13-16, 2004, Loews Vanderbilt Plaza Hotel, Nashville, TN, US
New Bounds for the Dichromatic Number of a Digraph
The chromatic number of a graph , denoted by , is the minimum
such that admits a -coloring of its vertex set in such a way that each
color class is an independent set (a set of pairwise non-adjacent vertices).
The dichromatic number of a digraph , denoted by , is the minimum
such that admits a -coloring of its vertex set in such a way that
each color class is acyclic.
In 1976, Bondy proved that the chromatic number of a digraph is at most
its circumference, the length of a longest cycle.
Given a digraph , we will construct three different graphs whose chromatic
numbers bound .
Moreover, we prove: i) for integers , and with and for each , that if all
cycles in have length modulo for some ,
then ; ii) if has girth and there are integers
and , with such that contains no cycle of length
modulo for each , then ;
iii) if has girth , the length of a shortest cycle, and circumference
, then , which improves,
substantially, the bound proposed by Bondy. Our results show that if we have
more information about the lengths of cycles in a digraph, then we can improve
the bounds for the dichromatic number known until now.Comment: 14 page
D-colorable digraphs with large girth
In 1959 Paul Erdos (Graph theory and probability, Canad. J. Math. 11 (1959), 34-38) famously proved, nonconstructively, that there exist graphs that have both arbitrarily large girth and arbitrarily large chromatic number. This result, along with its proof, has had a number of descendants (D. Bokal, G. Fijavz, M. Juvan, P.M. Kayll and B. Mohar, The circular chromatic number of a digraph, J. Graph Theory 46 (2004), 227-240; B. Bollobas and N. Sauer, Uniquely colourable graphs with large girth, Canad. J. Math. 28 (1976), 1340-1344; J. Nesetril and X. Zhu, On sparse graphs with given colorings and homomorphisms, J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 90 (2004), 161-172; X. Zhu, Uniquely H-colorable graphs with large girth, J. Graph Theory 23 (1996), 33-41) that have extended and generalized the result while strengthening the techniques used to achieve it. We follow the lead of Xuding Zhu (op. cit.) who proved that, for a suitable graph H, there exist graphs of arbitrarily large girth that are uniquely H-colorable. We establish an analogue of Zhu\u27s results in a digraph setting.
Let C and D be digraphs. A mapping f:V(D)&rarr V(C) is a C-coloring if for every arc uv of D, either f(u)f(v) is an arc of C or f(u)=f(v), and the preimage of every vertex of C induces an acyclic subdigraph in D. We say that D is C-colorable if it admits a C-coloring and that D is uniquely C-colorable if it is surjectively C-colorable and any two C-colorings of D differ by an automorphism of C. We prove that if D is a digraph that is not C-colorable, then there exist graphs of arbitrarily large girth that are D-colorable but not C-colorable. Moreover, for every digraph D that is uniquely D-colorable, there exists a uniquely D-colorable digraph of arbitrarily large girth
On the Complexity of Digraph Colourings and Vertex Arboricity
It has been shown by Bokal et al. that deciding 2-colourability of digraphs
is an NP-complete problem. This result was later on extended by Feder et al. to
prove that deciding whether a digraph has a circular -colouring is
NP-complete for all rational . In this paper, we consider the complexity
of corresponding decision problems for related notions of fractional colourings
for digraphs and graphs, including the star dichromatic number, the fractional
dichromatic number and the circular vertex arboricity. We prove the following
results:
Deciding if the star dichromatic number of a digraph is at most is
NP-complete for every rational .
Deciding if the fractional dichromatic number of a digraph is at most is
NP-complete for every .
Deciding if the circular vertex arboricity of a graph is at most is
NP-complete for every rational .
To show these results, different techniques are required in each case. In
order to prove the first result, we relate the star dichromatic number to a new
notion of homomorphisms between digraphs, called circular homomorphisms, which
might be of independent interest. We provide a classification of the
computational complexities of the corresponding homomorphism colouring problems
similar to the one derived by Feder et al. for acyclic homomorphisms.Comment: 21 pages, 1 figur
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