Subdivisions of Oriented Cycles in Digraphs with Hamiltonian directed path
Abstract
Cohen et al. conjectured that for every oriented cycle there exist an integer such that every strong -chromatic digraph contains a subdivision of . El Joubbeh confirmed this conjecture for Hamiltonian digraphs. Indeed, he showed that every -chromatic Hamiltonian digraph contains a subdivision of every oriented cycle of order . In this article, we improve this bound to . Furthermore, we show that, if is a digraph containing a Hamiltonian directed path with chromatic number at least , then contains a subdivision of every oriented cycle of order . Note that a digraph containing a Hamiltonian directed path need not be strongly connected. Thus, our current result provides a deeper understanding of the condition that may be needed to fully solve the conjecture.
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@article{arxiv.2409.11421,
title = {Subdivisions of Oriented Cycles in Digraphs with Hamiltonian directed path},
author = {Abbas Alhakim and Mouhamad El Joubbeh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.11421},
year = {2024}
}