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The horizon of 2-dichromatic oriented graphs

Combinatorics 2022-02-01 v1

Abstract

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 study oriented graphs, which have dichromatic number more than 2. Such a graph DD is 33-dicritical if the removal of any arc of DD reduces the dichromatic number to 2. We construct infinitely many 33-dicritical oriented graphs. Neumann-Lara found the four 77-vertex 33-dichromatic tournaments. We determine the 88-vertex 33-dichromatic tournaments, which do not contain any of these, there are 6464 of them. We also find all 33-dicritical oriented graphs on 88 vertices, there are 159159 of them. We determine the smallest number of arcs that a 33-dicritical oriented graph can have. There is a unique oriented graph with 77 vertices and 2020 arcs.

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@article{arxiv.2201.13161,
  title  = {The horizon of 2-dichromatic oriented graphs},
  author = {János Barát and Mátyás Czett},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.13161},
  year   = {2022}
}
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