On panchromatic patterns


Por: Galeana-Sanchez, Hortensia, Strausz, Ricardo

Publicada: 6 oct 2016
Resumen:
Since the classic book of Berge (1985) it is well known that every digraph contains a kernel by paths. This was generalised by Sands et al. (1982) who proved that every edge two-coloured digraph has a kernel by monochromatic paths. More generally, given D and H two digraphs, D is H-coloured iff the arcs of D are coloured with the vertices of H. Furthermore, an H-walk in D is a sequence of arcs forming a walk in D whose colours are a walk in H. With this notion of H-walks, we can define H-independence, which is the absence of such a walk pairwise, and H-absorbance, which is the existence of such a walk towards the absorbent set. Thus, an H-kernel is a subset of vertices which is both H-independent and H-absorbent. The aim of this paper is to characterise those H, which we call panchromatic patterns, for which all D and all H-colourings of D admits an H-kernel. This solves a problem of Arpin and Linek from 2007 (Arpin and Linek, 2007). © 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Filiaciones:
Galeana-Sanchez, Hortensia:
 Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Matemat, Ciudad Univ, Mexico City 04510, DF, Mexico

Strausz, Ricardo:
 Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Matemat, Ciudad Univ, Mexico City 04510, DF, Mexico
ISSN: 0012365X
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Tipo de documento: Article
Volumen: 339 Número: 10
Páginas: 2536-2542
WOS Id: 000379281200017