Coloring tournaments with few colors: Algorithms and complexity

F Klingelhoefer, A Newman - SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 2024 - SIAM
A-coloring of a tournament is a partition of its vertices into acyclic sets. Deciding if a
tournament is 2-colorable is NP-hard. A natural problem, akin to that of coloring a 3 …

Dichromatic number and forced subdivisions

L Gishboliner, R Steiner, T Szabó - Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series …, 2022 - Elsevier
We investigate bounds on the dichromatic number of digraphs which avoid a fixed digraph
as a topological minor. For a digraph F, denote by mader χ→(F) the smallest integer k such …

On coloring digraphs with forbidden induced subgraphs

R Steiner - Journal of Graph Theory, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We prove a conjecture by Aboulker, Charbit, and Naserasr by showing that every oriented
graph in which the out‐neighborhood of every vertex induces a transitive tournament can be …

On a problem of El-Zahar and Erdős

T Nguyen, A Scott, P Seymour - Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, 2024 - Elsevier
Two subgraphs A, B of a graph G are anticomplete if they are vertex-disjoint and there are
no edges joining them. Is it true that if G is a graph with bounded clique number, and …

Bounding the chromatic number of dense digraphs by arc neighborhoods

F Klingelhoefer, A Newman - Combinatorica, 2024 - Springer
The chromatic number of a directed graph is the minimum number of induced acyclic
subdigraphs that cover its vertex set, and accordingly, the chromatic number of a tournament …

Heroes in orientations of chordal graphs

P Aboulker, G Aubian, R Steiner - SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 2022 - SIAM
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reproduction of this article is prohibited. SIAM J. DISCRETE MATH. © 2022 Society for Industrial …

Parameterized algorithms for directed modular width

R Steiner, S Wiederrecht - Conference on Algorithms and Discrete Applied …, 2020 - Springer
Many well-known NP-hard algorithmic problems on directed graphs resist efficient
parameterizations with most known width measures for directed graphs, such as directed …

Some results and problems on tournament structure

T Nguyen, A Scott, P Seymour - arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.02364, 2023 - arxiv.org
This paper is a survey of results and problems related to the following question: is it true that
if G is a tournament with sufficiently large chromatic number, then G has two vertex-disjoint …

Digraph coloring and distance to acyclicity

A Harutyunyan, M Lampis, N Melissinos - Theory of Computing Systems, 2024 - Springer
Abstract In k-Digraph Coloring we are given a digraph and are asked to partition its vertices
into at most k sets, so that each set induces a DAG. This well-known problem is NP-hard, as …

Complete directed minors and chromatic number

T Mészáros, R Steiner - Journal of Graph Theory, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The dichromatic number χ→(D) χ(D) of a digraph DD is the smallest kk for which it admits ak
k‐coloring where every color class induces an acyclic subgraph. Inspired by Hadwiger's …