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Proper connection and proper-walk connection of digraphs

Combinatorics 2020-09-15 v1

Abstract

An arc-colored digraph D is properly (properly-walk) connected if, for any ordered pair of vertices (u,v)(u, v), the digraph DD contains a directed path (a directed walk) from uu to vv such that arcs adjacent on that path (on that walk) have distinct colors. The proper connection number pc(D)\overrightarrow{pc}(D) (the proper-walk connection number wc(D)\overrightarrow{wc}(D)) of a digraph DD is the minimum number of colours to make DD properly connected (properly-walk connected). We prove that pc(Cn(S))2\overrightarrow{pc}(C_n(S)) \leq 2 for every circulant digraph Cn(S)C_n(S) with S{1,,n1},S2S\subseteq\{1,\ldots ,n-1\}, |S|\ge 2 and 1S1\in S. Furthermore, we give some sufficient conditions for a Hamiltonian digraph DD to satisfy pc(D)=wc(D)=2\overrightarrow{pc}(D)= \overrightarrow{wc}(D) = 2.

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@article{arxiv.2009.06331,
  title  = {Proper connection and proper-walk connection of digraphs},
  author = {Anna Fiedorowicz and Elżbieta Sidorowicz and Èric Sopena},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.06331},
  year   = {2020}
}
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