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The inversion number of dijoins and blow-up digraphs

Combinatorics 2024-04-26 v2

Abstract

For an oriented graph DD, the inversioninversion of XV(D)X \subseteq V(D) in DD is the digraph obtained from DD by reversing the direction of all arcs with both ends in XX. The inversion number of DD, denoted by inv(D)inv(D), is the minimum number of inversions needed to transform DD into an acyclic digraph. In this paper, we first show that inv(C3D)=inv(D)+1inv (\overrightarrow{C_3} \Rightarrow D)= inv(D) +1 for any oriented graph D\textit{D} with even inversion number inv(D)inv(D), where the dijoin C3D\overrightarrow{C_3} \Rightarrow D is the oriented graph obtained from the disjoint union of C3\overrightarrow{C_3} and DD by adding all arcs from C3\overrightarrow{C_3} to DD. Thus we disprove the conjecture of Aubian el at. \cite{2212.09188} and the conjecture of Alon el at. \cite{2212.11969}. We also study the blow-up graph which is an oriented graph obtained from a tournament by replacing all vertices into oriented graphs. We construct a tournament TT with order nn and inv(T)=n3+1inv(T)=\frac{n}{3}+1 using blow-up graphs.

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@article{arxiv.2404.14937,
  title  = {The inversion number of dijoins and blow-up digraphs},
  author = {Haozhe Wang and Yuxuan Yang and Mei Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.14937},
  year   = {2024}
}