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A Hamilton cycle in a digraph is a cycle that passes through all the vertices, where all the arcs are oriented in the same direction. The problem of finding Hamilton cycles in directed graphs is well studied and is known to be hard. One of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Asaf Ferber , Gal Kronenberg , Eoin Long

Let $D$ be a digraph. A subset $S$ of $V(D)$ is a stable set if every pair of vertices in $S$ is non-adjacent in $D$. A collection of disjoint paths $\mathcal{P}$ of $D$ is a path partition of $V(D)$, if every vertex in $V(D)$ is exactly on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Lucas Ismaily Bezerra Freitas , Orlando Lee

The natural infinite analogue of a (finite) Hamilton cycle is a two-way-infinite Hamilton path (connected spanning 2-valent subgraph). Although it is known that every connected $2k$-valent infinite circulant graph has a two-way-infinite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-31 Darryn Bryant , Sarada Herke , Barbara Maenhaut , Bridget Webb

An oriented graph is a directed graph without any cycle of length at most 2. To push a vertex of a directed graph is to reverse the orientation of the arcs incident to that vertex. Klostermeyer and MacGillivray defined push graphs which are…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-08-31 Sagnik Sen

Let $D$ be a digraph. A stable set $S$ of $D$ and a path partition $\mathcal{P}$ of $D$ are orthogonal if every path $P \in \mathcal{P}$ contains exactly one vertex of $S$. In 1982, Berge defined the class of $\alpha$-diperfect digraphs. A…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-29 Caroline Aparecida de Paula Silva , Cândida Nunes da Silva , Orlando Lee

In the homomorphism order of digraphs, a duality pair is an ordered pair of digraphs $(G,H)$ such that for any digraph, $D$, $G\to D$ if and only if $D\not\to H$. The directed path on $k+1$ vertices together with the transitive tournament…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Santiago Guzmán-Pro , César Hernández-Cruz

Let $D=(V(D),A(D))$ be a digraph with at least one directed cycle. A set $F$ of arcs is a feedback arc set (FAS) if $D-F$ has no directed cycle. The FAS decomposition number ${\rm fasd}(D)$ of $D$ is the maximum number of pairwise disjoint…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Gregory Gutin , Mads Anker Nielsen , Anders Yeo , Yacong Zhou

Let $H$ be an oriented graph without directed cycle. The oriented Ramsey number of $H$, denoted by $\overrightarrow{r}(H)$, is the smallest integer $N$ such that every tournament on $N$ vertices contains a copy of $H$. Rosenfeld (JCT-B,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Junying Lu , Yaojun Chen

A \emph{simple} $s,t$ path $P$ in a rectangular grid graph $\mathbb{G}$ is a Hamiltonian path from the top-left corner $s$ to the bottom-right corner $t$ such that each \emph{internal} subpath of $P$ with both endpoints $a$ and $b$ on the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Rahnuma Islam Nishat , Venkatesh Srinivasan , Sue Whitesides

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…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-01 János Barát , Mátyás Czett

Let $D$ be a digraph. Its acyclic number $\vec{\alpha}(D)$ is the maximum order of an acyclic induced subdigraph and its dichromatic number $\vec{\chi}(D)$ is the least integer $k$ such that $V(D)$ can be partitioned into $k$ subsets…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Pierre Aboulker , Frédéric Havet , François Pirot , Juliette Schabanel

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

A supergrid graph is a finite vertex-induced subgraph of the infinite graph whose vertex set consists of all points of the plane with integer coordinates and in which two vertices are adjacent if the difference of their x or y coordinates…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Ruo-Wei Hung , Fatemeh Keshavarz-Kohjerdi

For an oriented graph $D$ and a set $X\subseteq V(D)$, the inversion of $X$ in $D$ is the graph obtained from $D$ by reversing the orientation of each edge that has both endpoints in $X$. Define the inversion number of $D$, denoted…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Natalie Behague , Tom Johnston , Natasha Morrison , Shannon Ogden

Given a digraph D, the minimum semi-degree of D is the minimum of its minimum indegree and its minimum outdegree. D is k-ordered Hamiltonian if for every ordered sequence of k distinct vertices there is a directed Hamilton cycle which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-07-12 Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus , Andrew Young

We prove that for every $\varepsilon > 0$ there exists $n_0=n_0(\varepsilon)$ such that every regular oriented graph on $n > n_0$ vertices and degree at least $(1/4 + \varepsilon)n$ has a Hamilton cycle. This establishes an approximate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-15 Allan Lo , Viresh Patel , Mehmet Akif Yıldız

For a digraph $D=(V(D), A(D))$, and a set $S\subseteq V(D)$ with $r\in S$ and $|S|\geq 2$, a directed $(S, r)$-Steiner path or, simply, an $(S, r)$-path is a directed path $P$ started at $r$ with $S\subseteq V(P)$. Two $(S, r)$-paths are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-15 Yuefang Sun

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

In 1974, Erd\H{o}s asked the following question: given a graph $G$ and a directed graph $\vec{H}$, how many ways are there to orient the edges of $G$ such that it does not contain $\vec{H}$ as a subgraph? We denote this value by $D(G,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-04 Hannah Sheats

Let $n$ be sufficiently large and suppose that $G$ is a digraph on $n$ vertices where every vertex has in- and outdegree at least $n/2$. We show that $G$ contains every orientation of a Hamilton cycle except, possibly, the antidirected one.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-10 Louis DeBiasio , Daniela Kühn , Theodore Molla , Deryk Osthus , Amelia Taylor