Monochromatic paths and monochromatic cycles in edge-coloured k-partite tournaments

We call the digraph D an m-coloured digraph if the arcs of D are coloured with m colours. A subdigraph H of D is called monochromatic if all of its arcs are coloured alike. A set N subset of V(D) is said to be a kernel by monochromatic paths if it satisfies the following two conditions: (i) For ever...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Rojas-Monroy, R, Galeana-Sánchez, H
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:México
Institución:Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Repositorio:Sistema de Información de la Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.fciencias.unam.mx:11154/192
Acceso en línea:http://hdlhandlenet/123456789/169
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Mathematics
kernel
kernel by monochromatic paths
k-partite tournament
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Sumario:We call the digraph D an m-coloured digraph if the arcs of D are coloured with m colours. A subdigraph H of D is called monochromatic if all of its arcs are coloured alike. A set N subset of V(D) is said to be a kernel by monochromatic paths if it satisfies the following two conditions: (i) For every pair of different vertices u, v is an element of N there is no monochromatic directed path between them. (ii) For every vertex x is an element of V(D) N, there is a vertex y is an element of N such that there is an xy-monochromatic directed path. In this paper it is proved that if D is an m-coloured k-partite tournament such that every directed cycle of length 3 and every directed cycle of length 4 is monochromatic, then D has a kernel by monochromatic paths. Some previous results are generalized.