Chordal Graphs are Fully Orientable
Combinatorics
2012-02-28 v1 Discrete Mathematics
Abstract
Suppose that D is an acyclic orientation of a graph G. An arc of D is called dependent if its reversal creates a directed cycle. Let m and M denote the minimum and the maximum of the number of dependent arcs over all acyclic orientations of G. We call G fully orientable if G has an acyclic orientation with exactly d dependent arcs for every d satisfying m <= d <= M. A graph G is called chordal if every cycle in G of length at least four has a chord. We show that all chordal graphs are fully orientable.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1202.5718,
title = {Chordal Graphs are Fully Orientable},
author = {Hsin-Hao Lai and Ko-Wei Lih},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.5718},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
11 pages, 1 figure, accepted by Ars Combinatoria (March 26, 2010)