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Title

On graphs all of whose {C₃,T₃}-free arc colorations are kernel-perfect

Authors 1, 1

Affiliations

  1. Instituto de Matemáticas, UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510, México, D.F., Mexico

Abstract

A digraph D is called a kernel-perfect digraph or KP-digraph when every induced subdigraph of D has a kernel. We call the digraph D an m-coloured digraph if the arcs of D are coloured with m distinct colours. A path P is monochromatic in D if all of its arcs are coloured alike in D. The closure of D, denoted by ζ(D), is the m-coloured digraph defined as follows: V( ζ(D)) = V(D), and A( ζ(D)) = ∪_{i} {(u,v) with colour i: there exists a monochromatic path of colour i from the vertex u to the vertex v contained in D}. We will denoted by T₃ and C₃, the transitive tournament of order 3 and the 3-directed-cycle respectively; both of whose arcs are coloured with three different colours. Let G be a simple graph. By an m-orientation-coloration of G we mean an m-coloured digraph which is an asymmetric orientation of G. By the class E we mean the set of all the simple graphs G that for any m-orientation-coloration D without C₃ or T₃, we have that ζ(D) is a KP-digraph. In this paper we prove that if G is a hamiltonian graph of class E, then its complement has at most one nontrivial component, and this component is K₃ or a star.

Keywords

kernel, kernel-perfect digraph, m-coloured digraph

Bibliography

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Pages:
77-93
Main language of publication
English
Received
2000-09-27
Accepted
2001-02-15
Published
2001
Exact and natural sciences