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On coloring digraphs with forbidden induced subgraphs

Combinatorics 2021-03-09 v1

Abstract

We prove a conjecture by Aboulker, Charbit and Naserasr by showing that every oriented graph in which the out-neighborhood of every vertex induces a transitive tournament can be partitioned into two acyclic induced subdigraphs. We prove multiple extensions of this result to larger classes of digraphs defined by a finite list of forbidden induced subdigraphs. We thereby resolve several special cases of an extension of the famous Gy\'{a}rf\'{a}s-Sumner conjecture to directed graphs by Aboulker et al.

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@article{arxiv.2103.04191,
  title  = {On coloring digraphs with forbidden induced subgraphs},
  author = {Raphael Steiner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.04191},
  year   = {2021}
}

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23 pages

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