The horizon of 2-dichromatic oriented graphs
Abstract
The dichromatic number of a directed graph is at most 2, if we can 2-color the vertices such that each monochromatic part is acyclic. An oriented graph arises from a graph by orienting its edges in one of the two possible directions. We study oriented graphs, which have dichromatic number more than 2. Such a graph is -dicritical if the removal of any arc of reduces the dichromatic number to 2. We construct infinitely many -dicritical oriented graphs. Neumann-Lara found the four -vertex -dichromatic tournaments. We determine the -vertex -dichromatic tournaments, which do not contain any of these, there are of them. We also find all -dicritical oriented graphs on vertices, there are of them. We determine the smallest number of arcs that a -dicritical oriented graph can have. There is a unique oriented graph with vertices and arcs.
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@article{arxiv.2201.13161,
title = {The horizon of 2-dichromatic oriented graphs},
author = {János Barát and Mátyás Czett},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.13161},
year = {2022}
}