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A strong orientation of a graph $G$ is an assignment of a direction to each edge such that $G$ is strongly connected. The oriented diameter of $G$ is the smallest diameter among all strong orientations of $G$. A block of $G$ is a maximal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-28 P. Dankelmann , M. J. Morgan , E. J. Rivett-Carnac

Let $u_k(G,p)$ be the maximum over all $k$-vertex graphs $F$ of by how much the number of induced copies of $F$ in $G$ differs from its expectation in the binomial random graph with the same number of vertices as $G$ and with edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Humberto Naves , Oleg Pikhurko , Alex Scott

The dichromatic number of an oriented graph is the minimum size of a partition of its vertices into acyclic induced subdigraphs. We prove that oriented graphs with no induced directed path on six vertices and no triangle have bounded…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-19 Pierre Aboulker , Guillaume Aubian , Pierre Charbit , Stéphan Thomassé

We consider the problem of classifying those graphs that arise as an undirected square of an oriented graph by generalising the notion of quasi-transitive directed graphs to mixed graphs. We fully classify those graphs of maximum degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Christopher Duffy

Godsil (1985) defined a graph to be invertible if it has a non-singular adjacency matrix whose inverse is diagonally similar to a nonnegative integral matrix; the graph defined by the last matrix is then the inverse of the original graph.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Sona Pavlikova , Daniel Sevcovic

Given two $k$-dicolourings of a digraph $D$, we prove that it is PSPACE-complete to decide whether we can transform one into the other by recolouring one vertex at each step while maintaining a dicolouring at any step even for $k=2$ and for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Nicolas Bousquet , Frédéric Havet , Nicolas Nisse , Lucas Picasarri-Arrieta , Amadeus Reinald

We aim to find orientations of mixed graphs optimizing the total reachability, a problem that has applications in causality and biology. For given a digraph $D$, we use $P(D)$ for the set of ordered pairs of distinct vertices in $V(D)$ and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Florian Hörsch

Orienting the edges of an undirected graph such that the resulting digraph satisfies some given constraints is a classical problem in graph theory, with multiple algorithmic applications. In particular, an $st$-orientation orients each edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Carla Binucci , Giuseppe Liotta , Fabrizio Montecchiani , Giacomo Ortali , Tommaso Piselli

By a well known theorem of Robbins, a graph $G$ has a strongly connected orientation if and only if $G$ is 2-edge-connected and it is easy to find, in linear time, either a cut edge of $G$ or a strong orientation of $G$. A result of Durand…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Jørgen Bang-Jensen , Florian Hörsch , Matthias Kriesell

Let $G$ be a graph and $A$ be its adjacency matrix. A graph $G$ is invertible if its adjacency matrix $A$ is invertible and the inverse of $G$ is a weighted graph with adjacency matrix $A^{-1}$. A signed graph $(G,\sigma)$ is a weighted…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Isaiah Osborne , Dong Ye

The diameter of an undirected or a directed graph is defined to be the maximum shortest path distance over all pairs of vertices in the graph. Given an undirected graph $G$, we examine the problem of assigning directions to each edge of $G$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Debajyoti Mondal , N. Parthiban , Indra Rajasingh

A set $X$ of vertices of an acyclic digraph $D$ is convex if $X\neq \emptyset$ and there is no directed path between vertices of $X$ which contains a vertex not in $X$. A set $X$ is connected if $X\neq \emptyset$ and the underlying…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-12-18 P. Balister , S. Gerke , G. Gutin , A. Johnstone , J. Reddington , E. Scott , A. Soleimanfallah , A. Yeo

The inverse degree of a graph is the sum of the reciprocals of the degrees of its vertices. We prove that in any connected planar graph, the diameter is at most 5/2 times the inverse degree, and that this ratio is tight. To develop a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-06-15 Radoslav Fulek , Filip Morić , David Pritchard

It is an intriguing question to see what kind of information on the structure of an oriented graph $D$ one can obtain if $D$ does not contain a fixed oriented graph $H$ as a subgraph. The related question in the unoriented case has been an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-11-22 Omid Amini , Simon Griffiths , Florian Huc

Given a digraph, an ordering of its vertices defines a backedge graph, namely the undirected graph whose edges correspond to the arcs pointing backwards with respect to the order. The degreewidth of a digraph is the minimum over all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Pierre Aboulker , Nacim Oijid , Robin Petit , Mathis Rocton , Christopher-Lloyd Simon

In this work, for a given oriented graph $D$, we study its interval and hull numbers, respectively, in the oriented geodetic, P3 and P3* convexities. This last one, we believe to be formally defined and first studied in this paper, although…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-05 J. Araujo , A. K. Maia , P. P. Medeiros , L. Penso

An oriented graph is a directed graph without directed 2-cycles. Poljak and Turz\'{i}k (1986) proved that every connected oriented graph $G$ on $n$ vertices and $m$ arcs contains an acyclic subgraph with at least $\frac{m}{2}+\frac{n-1}{4}$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-10-01 Robert Crowston , Gregory Gutin , Mark Jones

We study the problem of finding an acyclic orientation of an undirected graph with constrained in-degree parities specified by a subset T of vertices. An orientation is called T -odd if a vertex v has odd in-degree if and only if v P T .…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Sylvain Gravier , Matthieu Petiteau , Isabelle Sivignon

A graph $G$ has $p$-intersection number at most $d$ if it is possible to assign to every vertex $u$ of $G$, a subset $S(u)$ of some ground set $U$ with $|U|=d$ in such a way that distinct vertices $u$ and $v$ of $G$ are adjacent in $G$ if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-16 Claudson F. Bornstein , Jose W. C. Pinto , Dieter Rautenbach , Jayme L. Szwarcfiter

Switching about a vertex in a digraph means to reverse the direction of every edge incident with that vertex. Bondy and Mercier introduced the problem of whether a digraph can be reconstructed up to isomorphism from the multiset of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-08-06 Brendan D. McKay , Pascal Schweitzer