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Kernels by properly colored paths in arc-colored digraphs

Combinatorics 2017-04-28 v1

Abstract

A {\em kernel by properly colored paths} of an arc-colored digraph DD is a set SS of vertices of DD such that (i) no two vertices of SS are connected by a properly colored directed path in DD, and (ii) every vertex outside SS can reach SS by a properly colored directed path in DD. In this paper, we conjecture that every arc-colored digraph with all cycles properly colored has such a kernel and verify the conjecture for unicyclic digraphs, semi-complete digraphs and bipartite tournaments, respectively. Moreover, weaker conditions for the latter two classes of digraphs are given.

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@article{arxiv.1704.08455,
  title  = {Kernels by properly colored paths in arc-colored digraphs},
  author = {Yandong Bai and Shinya Fujita and Shenggui Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.08455},
  year   = {2017}
}
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