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On oriented cliques with respect to push operation

Combinatorics 2015-11-30 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

To push a vertex vv of a directed graph G\overrightarrow{G} is to change the orientations of all the arcs incident with vv. An oriented graph is a directed graph without any cycle of length at most 2. An oriented clique is an oriented graph whose non-adjacent vertices are connected by a directed 2-path. A push clique is an oriented clique that remains an oriented clique even if one pushes any set of vertices of it. We show that it is NP-complete to decide if an undirected graph is underlying graph of a push clique or not. We also prove that a planar push clique can have at most 8 vertices. We also provide an exhaustive list of minimal (with respect to spanning subgraph inclusion) planar push cliques.

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@article{arxiv.1511.08672,
  title  = {On oriented cliques with respect to push operation},
  author = {Julien Bensmail and Soumen Nandi and Sagnik Sen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.08672},
  year   = {2015}
}
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