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Minimum acyclic number and maximum dichromatic number of oriented triangle-free graphs of a given order

Combinatorics 2024-03-05 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

Let DD be a digraph. Its acyclic number α(D)\vec{\alpha}(D) is the maximum order of an acyclic induced subdigraph and its dichromatic number χ(D)\vec{\chi}(D) is the least integer kk such that V(D)V(D) can be partitioned into kk subsets inducing acyclic subdigraphs. We study a(n){\vec a}(n) and t(n)\vec t(n) which are the minimum of α(D)\vec\alpha(D) and the maximum of χ(D)\vec{\chi}(D), respectively, over all oriented triangle-free graphs of order nn. For every ϵ>0\epsilon>0 and nn large enough, we show (1/2ϵ)nlogna(n)1078nlogn(1/\sqrt{2} - \epsilon) \sqrt{n\log n} \leq \vec{a}(n) \leq \frac{107}{8} \sqrt n \log n and 8107n/lognt(n)(2+ϵ)n/logn\frac{8}{107} \sqrt n/\log n \leq \vec{t}(n) \leq (\sqrt 2 + \epsilon) \sqrt{n/\log n}. We also construct an oriented triangle-free graph on 25 vertices with dichromatic number~3, and show that every oriented triangle-free graph of order at most 17 has dichromatic number at most 2.

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@article{arxiv.2403.02298,
  title  = {Minimum acyclic number and maximum dichromatic number of oriented triangle-free graphs of a given order},
  author = {Pierre Aboulker and Frédéric Havet and François Pirot and Juliette Schabanel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.02298},
  year   = {2024}
}

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19 pages, 5 figures