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Obstructions to some injective oriented colourings

Combinatorics 2022-07-27 v1

Abstract

Each of several possible definitions of local injectivity for a homomorphism of an oriented graph GG to an oriented graph HH leads to an injective oriented colouring problem. For each case in which such a problem is solvable in polynomial time, we identify a set F\mathcal{F} of oriented graphs such that an oriented graph GG has an injective oriented colouring with the given number of colours if and only if there is no FFF \in \mathcal{F} for which there is a locally-injective homomorphism of FF to GG.

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@article{arxiv.2207.12523,
  title  = {Obstructions to some injective oriented colourings},
  author = {Russell Campbell and Nancy E. Clarke and Gary MacGillivray},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.12523},
  year   = {2022}
}

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19 pages, 4 figures

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