Domination in transitive colorings of tournaments

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DOI10.1016/J.JCTB.2014.02.001zbMATH Open1298.05132arXiv1302.4677OpenAlexW2072025981MaRDI QIDQ403357FDOQ403357

Dömötör Pálvölgyi, András Gyárfás

Publication date: 29 August 2014

Published in: Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: An edge coloring of a tournament T with colors 1,2,dots,k is called it k-transitive m if the digraph T(i) defined by the edges of color i is transitively oriented for each 1leilek. We explore a conjecture of the second author: For each positive integer k there exists a (least) p(k) such that every k-transitive tournament has a dominating set of at most p(k) vertices. We show how this conjecture relates to other conjectures and results. For example, it is a special case of a well-known conjecture of ErdH os, Sands, Sauer and Woodrow (so the conjecture is interesting even if false). We show that the conjecture implies a stronger conjecture, a possible extension of a result of B'ar'any and Lehel on covering point sets by boxes. The principle used leads also to an upper bound O(22d1dlogd) on the d-dimensional box-cover number that is better than all previous bounds, in a sense close to best possible. We also improve the best bound known in 3-dimensions from 314 to 64 and propose possible further improvements through finding the maximum domination number over parity tournaments.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.4677





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