Inversion diameter and treewidth
Abstract
In an oriented graph , the inversion of a subset of vertices is the operation that reverses the orientation of all arcs with both end-vertices in . The inversion graph of a graph , denoted by , is the graph whose vertices are orientations of in which two orientations and are adjacent if and only if there is an inversion transforming into .The inversion diameter of a graph is the diameter of its inversion graph , denoted by .Havet, H\"orsch, and Rambaud~(2024) first proved that for of treewidth , , and that there are graphs of treewidth with inversion diameter .In this paper, we construct graphs of treewidth with inversion diameter , which implies that the previous upper bound is tight.Moreover, for graphs with maximum degree , Havet, H\"orsch, and Rambaud~(2024) proved and conjectured that . We prove the conjecture when with the help of computer calculations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2407.15384,
title = {Inversion diameter and treewidth},
author = {Yichen Wang and Haozhe Wang and Yuxuan Yang and Mei Lu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.15384},
year = {2026}
}