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For integers \(r\ge 2\), \(t\ge 1\) and a real number \(a\in(3/2,2]\), we study the typical structure of oriented graphs and digraphs that do not contain a blow-up \(T_{r+1}^t\) of a transitive tournament. We prove that almost every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Meili Liang , Yue Guan , Ruiling Zheng , Jianxi Liu

Let $\gamma_g(G)$ and $\gamma_{tg}(G)$ be the game domination number and the total game domination number of a graph $G$, respectively. Then $G$ is $\gamma_g$-perfect (resp. $\gamma_{tg}$-perfect), if every induced subgraph $F$ of $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Csilla Bujtás , Vesna Iršič , Sandi Klavžar

Havet and Thomass\'{e} proved that every tournament of order $n\geq 8$ contains every oriented Hamiltonian path, which was conjectured by Rosenfeld. Recently, it was shown that in any tournament $T$ of order $n\geq 8$, there exists an arc…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Mahabba El Sahili , Ayman El Zein

We show that the problem of deciding whether a given graph $G$ has a well-balanced orientation $\vec{G}$ such that $d_{\vec{G}}^+(v)\leq \ell(v)$ for all $v \in V(G)$ for a given function $\ell:V(G)\rightarrow \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0}$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Florian Hörsch , Zoltán Szigeti

In their paper titled "On $F$-inverse covers of inverse monoids", Auinger and Szendrei have shown that every finite inverse monoid has an $F$-inverse cover if and only if each finite graph admits a locally finite group variety with a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-22 Nóra Szakács

An oriented graph $D$ is converse invariant if, for any tournament $T$, the number of copies of $D$ in $T$ is equal to that of its converse $-D$. El Sahili and Ghazo Hanna [J. Graph Theory 102 (2023), 684-701] showed that any oriented graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Jiangdong Ai , Gregory Gutin , Hui Lei , Anders Yeo , Yacong Zhou

We prove that isomorphism of tournaments of twin width at most $k$ can be decided in time $k^{O(\log k)}n^{O(1)}$. This implies that the isomorphism problem for classes of tournaments of bounded or moderately growing twin width is in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Martin Grohe , Daniel Neuen

A vertex set $D$ in a finite undirected graph $G$ is an {\em efficient dominating set} (e.d.s.\ for short) of $G$ if every vertex of $G$ is dominated by exactly one vertex of $D$. The \emph{Efficient Domination} (ED) problem, which asks for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Andreas Brandstädt , Raffaele Mosca

The oriented Tur\'{a}n number of a given oriented graph $\overrightarrow{F}$, denoted by $\exo(n,\overrightarrow{F})$, is the largest number of arcs in $n$-vertex $\overrightarrow{F}$-free oriented graphs. This parameter could be seen as a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Xuanrui Hu , Yuefang Sun

In recent years, much attention has been placed on the complexity of graph homomorphism problems when the input is restricted to ${\mathbb P}_k$-free and ${\mathbb P}_k$-subgraph-free graphs. We consider the directed version of this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Santiago Guzmán-Pro , Barnaby Martin

For a fixed digraph $\mathbb H$, the $\mathbb H$-coloring problem is the problem of deciding whether a given input digraph $\mathbb G$ admits a homomorphism to $\mathbb H$. The CSP dichotomy conjecture of Feder and Vardi is equivalent to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-03 Jakub Bulín

In this paper, we consider the following problem: given a connected graph $G$, can we reduce the domination number of $G$ by one by using only one edge contraction? We show that the problem is $\mathsf{NP}$-hard when restricted to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Esther Galby , Paloma T. Lima , Bernard Ries

A classical Tur\'an problem asks for the maximum possible number of edges in a graph of a given order that does not contain a particular graph $H$ as a subgraph. It is well-known that the chromatic number of $H$ is the graph parameter which…

Reconfiguration problems involve determining whether two given configurations can be transformed into each other under specific rules. The Token Sliding problem asks whether, given two different set of tokens on vertices of a graph $G$, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Niranka Banerjee , Christian Engels , Duc A. Hoang

Each of several possible definitions of local injectivity for a homomorphism of an oriented graph $G$ to an oriented graph $H$ leads to an injective oriented colouring problem. For each case in which such a problem is solvable in polynomial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Russell Campbell , Nancy E. Clarke , Gary MacGillivray

A directed graph where there is exactly one edge between every pair of vertices is called a {\em tournament}. Finding the "best" set of vertices of a tournament is a well studied problem in social choice theory. A {\em tournament solution}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Arnab Maiti , Palash Dey

Let $G$ be an undirected graph. An edge of $G$ dominates itself and all edges adjacent to it. A subset $E'$ of edges of $G$ is an edge dominating set of $G$, if every edge of the graph is dominated by some edge of $E'$. We say that $E'$ is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Min Chih Lin , Vadim Lozin , Veronica A. Moyano , Jayme L. Szwarcfiter

We study Steiner Forest on $H$-subgraph-free graphs, that is, graphs that do not contain some fixed graph $H$ as a (not necessarily induced) subgraph. We are motivated by a recent framework that completely characterizes the complexity of…

Tournament solutions provide methods for selecting the "best" alternatives from a tournament and have found applications in a wide range of areas. Previous work has shown that several well-known tournament solutions almost never rule out…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Christian Saile , Warut Suksompong

For a fixed set ${\cal H}$ of graphs, a graph $G$ is ${\cal H}$-subgraph-free if $G$ does not contain any $H \in {\cal H}$ as a (not necessarily induced) subgraph. A recently proposed framework gives a complete classification on ${\cal…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Vadim Lozin , Barnaby Martin , Sukanya Pandey , Daniel Paulusma , Mark Siggers , Siani Smith , Erik Jan van Leeuwen