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 , a digraph is a hero in if -free digraphs of 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 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}
}