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Linear Bound for Majority Colourings of Digraphs

Combinatorics 2017-01-23 v1

Abstract

Given η[0,1]\eta \in [0, 1], a colouring CC of V(G)V(G) is an η\eta-majority colouring if at most ηd+(v)\eta d^+(v) out-neighbours of vv have colour C(v)C(v), for any vV(G)v \in V(G). We show that every digraph GG equipped with an assignment of lists LL, each of size at least kk, has a 2/k2/k-majority LL-colouring. For even kk this is best possible, while for odd kk the constant 2/k2/k cannot be replaced by any number less than 2/(k+1)2/(k+1). This generalizes a result of Anholcer, Bosek and Grytczuk, who proved the cases k=3k=3 and k=4k=4 and gave a weaker result for general kk.

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@article{arxiv.1701.05715,
  title  = {Linear Bound for Majority Colourings of Digraphs},
  author = {Fiachra Knox and Robert Šámal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.05715},
  year   = {2017}
}

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3 pages

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