Remarks on the subdivisions of bispindles and two-blocks cycles in highly chromatic digraphs
Abstract
A -bispindle is the union of two -dipaths of respective lengths and , and one -dipath of length , all these dipaths being pairwise internally disjoint. Recently, Cohen et al. conjectured that, for every positive integers , there is an integer such that every strongly connected digraph not containing subdivisions of has a chromatic number at most , and they proved it only for the case where . For Hamiltonian digraphs, we prove Cohen et al.'s conjecture, namely , where . A two-blocks cycle is the union of two internally disjoint -dipaths of length and respectively. Addario et al. asked if the chromatic number of strong digraphs not containing subdivisions of a two-blocks cycle can be bounded from above by , which remains an open problem. Assuming that , the best reached upper bound, found by Kim et al., is . In this article, we conjecture that this bound can be slightly improved to and we confirm our conjecture for some particular cases. Moreover, we provide a positive answer to Addario et al.'s question for the class of digraphs having a Hamiltonian directed path.
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@article{arxiv.2010.10787,
title = {Remarks on the subdivisions of bispindles and two-blocks cycles in highly chromatic digraphs},
author = {Darine Al Mniny and Salman Ghazal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.10787},
year = {2020}
}