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Heroes in oriented complete multipartite graphs

Combinatorics 2023-12-14 v2 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

The dichromatic number of a digraph is the minimum size of a partition of its vertices into acyclic induced subgraphs. Given a class of digraphs C\mathcal C, a digraph HH is a hero in \mcC\mc C if HH-free digraphs of C\mathcal C have bounded dichromatic number. In a seminal paper, Berger at al. give a simple characterization of all heroes in tournaments. In this paper, we give a simple proof that heroes in quasi-transitive oriented graphs are the same as heroes in tournaments. We also prove that it is not the case in the class of oriented multipartite graphs, disproving a conjecture of Aboulker, Charbit and Naserasr. We also give a full characterisation of heroes in oriented complete multipartite graphs up to the status of a single tournament on 66 vertices.

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@article{arxiv.2202.13306,
  title  = {Heroes in oriented complete multipartite graphs},
  author = {Pierre Aboulker and Guillaume Aubian and Pierre Charbit},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.13306},
  year   = {2023}
}
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