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A procedure to obtain symmetric cycles of any odd length using directed Haj\'os constructions

Combinatorics 2023-01-19 v1

Abstract

The dichromatic number of a digraph DD is the minimum number of colors of a vertex coloring of DD such that DD has no monochromatic cycles. The Haj\'os join were recently extended to digraphs (using the dichromatic number) by J. Bang-Jensen et. al. and Haj\'os (directed) operations is a tool to obtain r-(di)chromatic (di)graphs. J. Bang-Jensen et. al. posed in 2020 the problem of how to obtain the symmetric cycle of length 5 from symmetric cycles of length 3. We recently solved this problem by applying a genetic algorithm. In this article, a procedure is presented to construct any odd symmetric cycle by applying directed Haj\'os operations to symmetric cycles of length 3, thus, generalizing the known construction of the symmetric cycle of length 5. In addition, this procedure is analyzed to determine its computational complexity.

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@article{arxiv.2301.07181,
  title  = {A procedure to obtain symmetric cycles of any odd length using directed Haj\'os constructions},
  author = {Juan Carlos García-Altamirano and Mika Olsen and Jorge Cervantes-Ojeda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.07181},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

9 pages, 4 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2210.05080