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Edge-coloured graph homomorphisms, paths, and duality

Combinatorics 2022-08-29 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

We present a edge-coloured analogue of the duality theorem for transitive tournaments and directed paths. Given a edge-coloured path PP whose edges alternate blue and red, we construct a edge-coloured graph DD so that for any edge-coloured graph GG PGG↛D. P \to G \Leftrightarrow G \not\to D. The duals are simple to construct, in particular V(D)=V(P)1|V(D)|=|V(P)|-1.

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@article{arxiv.2208.12326,
  title  = {Edge-coloured graph homomorphisms, paths, and duality},
  author = {Kyle Booker and Richard C Brewster},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.12326},
  year   = {2022}
}

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12 pages, 2 figures

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