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Pancyclism in the Generalized Sum of Digraphs

Combinatorics 2021-04-07 v1

Abstract

A digraph D=(V,A)D=(V,A) of order n3n\geq 3 is pancyclic, whenever DD contains a directed cycle of length kk for each k{3,...,n}k\in\{3,...,n\}; and D is vertex-pancyclic iff, for each vertex vVv\in V and each k{3,...,n}k\in \{3,...,n\}, DD contains a directed cycle of length kk passing through vv. Let D1D_1, D2D_2,..., DkD_k be a collection of pairwise vertex disjoint digraphs. The generalized sum (g.s.) of D1D_1, D2D_2,..., DkD_k, denoted by i=1kDi\oplus_{i=1}^k D_i or D1D2DkD_1\oplus D_2 \oplus \cdots \oplus D_k, is the set of all digraphs D satisfying: (i) V(D)=i=1kV(Di)V(D)=\bigcup_{i=1}^k V(D_i), (ii) DV(Di)DiD\langle V(D_i) \rangle \cong D_i for i=1,2,...,ki=1, 2,..., k; and (iii) for each pair of vertices belonging to different summands of D, there is exactly one arc between them, with an arbitrary but fixed direction. A digraph Di=1kDiD\in \oplus_{i=1}^k D_i will be called a generalized sum (g.s.) of D1D_1, D2D_2,..., DkD_k. In this paper we prove that if D1D_1 and D2D_2 are two vertex disjoint Hamiltonian digraphs and DD1D2D\in D_1 \oplus D_2 is strong, then at least one of the following assertions holds: DD is vertex-pancyclic, it is pancyclic or it is Hamiltonian and contains a directed cycle of length ll for each l{3,...,max{V(Di)+1 ⁣:i{1,2}}}l\in\{3,..., \max\{|V(D_i)|+1 \colon i\in\{1,2\}\}\}. Moreover, we prove that if D1D_1, D2D_2,..., DkD_k is a collection of pairwise vertex disjoint Hamiltonian digraphs, ni=V(Di)n_i=|V(D_i)| for each i{1,...,k}i\in \{1,...,k\} and Di=1kDiD \in \oplus_{i=1}^k D_i is strong, then at least one of the following assertions holds: DD is vertex-pancyclic, it is pancyclic or it is Hamiltonian and contains a directed cycle of length ll for each l{3,...,max{(iSni)+1 ⁣:S{1,...,k} with S=k1}}l\in \{3,..., \max\{\left(\sum_{i\in S} n_i\right) + 1 \colon S\subset\{1,..., k\}\text{ with }|S|=k-1\}\}.

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@article{arxiv.2104.02119,
  title  = {Pancyclism in the Generalized Sum of Digraphs},
  author = {Narda Cordero-Michel and Hortensia Galeana-Sánchez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.02119},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

20 pages, 3 figures

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