Questions tagged [directed-graphs]
A directed graph is a graph with directed edges. Loops and 2-cycles are usually allowed. See also the tag *quiver*.
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Directed version of this lemma
On a paper by Shoham Letzter, available Here, there's a lemma that says as follows:
Lemma 0: For every graph $G$, there exist two disjoint sets $U,W\subseteq V(G)$ of equal size, such that there are ...
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Minimum of sums over degree products in a directed acyclic graph
My problem is the following: we have a graph $ G=(V,E)$. Having a total ordering $ \eta $ of the nodes, we give a direction to the edges such that $ (u,v) $ is directed from $u$ to $v$ iif $ \eta(u) &...
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Dominating sets in subtournaments of the Paley tournament
For a tournament $T$, let $\mathrm{dom}(T)$ be the order of a smallest dominating set in $T$. Let $q$ be a prime power congruent to 3 mod 4 and let $T_q$ be the Paley tournament on $q$ vertices.
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Does the random graph interpret the random directed graph?
The random graph is the Fraisse limit of the class of finite graphs, the random directed graph is the Fraisse limit of the class of directed graphs, a directed graph is just a set with a binary ...
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Convergence on iterating a piecewise function
Given the four functions $P_1$, $P_2$, $N_1$ and $N_2$ (which together is a piecewise function) each with domain and range as shown above:
Is there an explanation as to why starting at any integer (...
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Name for a directed acyclic graph with no skip-level edges?
I'm looking at a specific class of DAGs, namely those DAGs such that any path from $u$ to $v$ has the same length. Informally, we don't allow "skip-level" edges. I understand these graphs ...
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Proving that every strongly connected tournament T on at least 4 vertices contains distinct vertices u, v such that T-u and T-v are strongly connected
I have a two part question:
Is there a simple proof that every strongly connected tournament $T$ on $n\geq 4$ vertices contains distinct $u,v\in V(T)$ such that $T-u$ and $T-v$ are strongly connected?...
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Infinite recursive graphs and different ways to build them
I asked this question one week ago on MSE and has received no answer.
Infinite directed graphs (graphs with countably many nodes and edges) have a number of different applications.
They can be ...
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Using a poset or directed graph as input for a neural network [closed]
I'm not sure if this is the right community to post this in but I would appreciate any help. As the title states, I'm trying to train a neural network using some unconventional input. I'm wondering if ...
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Kernel perfect orientations of complete graphs
How can we create a kernel perfect orientation of a complete graph? A kernel of a graph is a set of vertices in a graph $G$, which absorbs other vertices, that is, has all the vertices in its ...
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Digraphs with exactly one Eulerian tour
I’ve been thinking about the following problem from Richard Stanley’s list of bijective proof problems (2009). There, this problem is said to lack a combinatorial solution. The problem is the ...
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Digraphs with unique walk of length $k$ between any two vertices
Let $G$ be a digraph such that there is an unique directed walk of length $k$ between any two vertices.
Equivalently, if $A$ is the adjacency matrix of $G$, then $A^k$ is the matrix with all entries $...
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Directed graph minor theorems
In proving the graph minor theorem, Robertson and Seymour proved a stronger statement, namely that the directed graph minor theorem is true, using the definition
A directed graph is a minor of ...
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Has it already been shown that a digraph is $k$-connected if and only if there is a set of $k$ disjoint paths between every pair of vertices? [closed]
My question concerns graph theory.
There is a conjecture I know to be true, but I am not sure whether it has been proven before. It is a fairly simple result. It may be well-known; I am not sure.
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Expected number of directed cycle in a directed complete graph
Consider the randomized, directed complete graph G = (V, E) where for each pair of vertices u, v ∈ V, we add either the directed edge (u → v) or the directed edge (v → u) chosen uniformly at random. ...
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Distance pairs in labeled directed graph
Suppose we have a simple directed graph with $n$ nodes and $m$ edges, and we label each edge from $1$ to $m$ (with distinct labels). Define the weighted "length" of a directed path to be the maximum ...
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On the number of connected functional digraphs recoverable from the preimage set size structure
I am studying the list of inverse images (preimage sets) of some function $f$ at a given inverse depth $j$ -- for each element $x_i$ of a finite domain $X$.
For example,
$P_j=\left[f^{-j}(...
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Terminology for transforming a directed acyclic graph into a tree
I am looking for the term of converting a directed acyclic graph (DAG) into a tree by traversing its topologically ordered nodes and copying the subtrees of the nodes with in-degree $> 1$.
Such a ...
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Discrete version of Helmholtz decomposition
In The curl of graphs and networks (Gustafson and Haray, 1984) it is claimed to be shown that any digraph $G$ can be decomposed as the sum of three graphs $U_1 + U_2 + U_3$, where $U_1$ is divergence-...
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Infinite directed paths in tournaments on $\omega$
Does every tournament on $\omega$ contain an infinite directed path that doesn't visit any vertex twice?
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Explicit upper bound on the number of simple rooted directed graphs on 𝑛 vertices?
Harary mentioned this problem in "The number of linear, directed, rooted, and connected graphs" on p. 455, l. 3–5, but a short and crisp upper bound is missing. I believe that someone must have ...
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When does a graph have a circular orientation? Or equivalently can anyone help me characterize this particular class of $3$-colorable perfect graphs?
Call an oriented digraph $D=(V,A)$ circular when for all $\small x,y,z\in V$ if $(x,y)\in A$ and $(y,z)\in A$ then $(z,x)\in A$ or equivalently if $D$ is any oriented digraph whose arc set is a ...
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Population of P people, where each person knows K others, how many people mutually know each other
If you have a population of $P$ people, where each person knows $K$ others within the population (does not have to be mutual, i.e., if I know you, you don't necessarily know me), and $1<K<P$, ...
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Characterizing relations by forbidden induced subsets
Working with relations in a purely set theoretic manner i.e. as just sets of ordered pairs, we see for any relation $R$ there exists unique inclusion minimal sets $A$ and $B$ such that $R\subseteq A\...
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Finding the max-value set of cycles in a weighted digraph
I am looking for the most efficient algorithm that can solve this problem:
Given a directed graph with real-valued edge weights, find a set of directed cycles (no two cycles can share a vertex) that ...
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When does a graph have a minimally strong orientation?
Given an asymmetric relation $A\subseteq V^2$ a digraph $D=(V,A)$ is minimally strong iff $D$ is strongly connected and for all arcs $\alpha\in A$ the digraph $D−\alpha=(V,A\setminus\{\alpha\})$ is ...
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Digraphs with same number of semiwalks
This is a follow-up question to Characterisation of walk-equivalent digraphs.
Question: Do there exists two directed graphs $G$ and $H$ consisting of the same number ($n$) of vertices, such that
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Characterisation of walk-equivalent digraphs
Setting Let $G=(V,E)$ be an undirected graph. A walk $\pi$ in $G$ of length $k$ is a sequence of $k+1$ vertices $v_1,\ldots,v_{k+1}$ such that for each $i\in[1,k]$,
$\{v_i,v_{i+1}\}\in E$. Let $H=(W,F)...
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Two cospectral (normal) digraphs which are not orthogonal similar
Preliminaries
A complex matrix $A$ is normal when $A$ and $A^*$ commute. A real matrix $A$ is normal when $A$ and $A^t$ commute.
Two complex matrices $A$ and $B$ are said to be unitary similar if ...
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Significance of the Eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix of a weighted di-graph
I'm currently running a simulation on a bunch of randomly generated points, each with two randomly selected 'partners' from the set of points. In the simulation the points try to move such that they ...
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The properties of almost all directed graphs
A mathematician on the forum previously requested a reference on human brains modelled as directed graphs. This makes sense as neurons are mostly unidirectional and I have been thinking about similar ...
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Frobenius normal form of a doubly stochastic matrix
If $A \in M_n(\mathbb{C})$, then $A$ is called reducible if there is a permuation matrix $P$ such that
$$
P^\top A P =
\begin{bmatrix}
A_{11} & A_{12} \\
0 & A_{22}
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Latent Dirichlet allocation and properties of digamma function
In the paper Blei, D. M., Ng, A. Y., & Jordan, M. I. (2003). Latent Dirichlet Allocation. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 3(4–5), 993–1022. http://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume3/blei03a/blei03a....
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Proof of the asymptotic expression for the number of self-converse digraphs?
The following expression was mentioned in the master thesis of Alastair Farrugia
on Page 199 of his thesis Self-complementary graphs and generalisations: a comprehensive reference manual, M.Sc. Thesis,...
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Groups that can occur as graph automorphisms of a fixed size graph
From theorem $4$ and corollary $1$ in this book we have that graph isomorphism has to do with automorphism group of a graph. We also know every group is the automorphism group of a graph by Frucht's ...
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Finite sequences realizable by degree difference in digraphs
Let $n>0$ be an integer, and let $[n] = \{1,\ldots,n\}$. A function $f:[n]\to \mathbb{Z}$ is said to be in- and out-degree-realizable (or io-realizable for short) if there is a directed graph $G = (...
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Non-equivalent eulerian trails in $K_{2n+1}$
Two eulerian trails of $K_{2n+1}$ are defined to be equivalent if the orientations obtained by orienting the edges as traversed by the trails are isomorphic as digraph. How many non-equivalent trails ...
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Algorithm generating digraphs
Is there an algorightm generating all digraphs with $n$ edges up to isomorphism whose underlying graph is not a tree? For example, for $n=3$, there are only two such digraphs, representable as $\text{...
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Algorithms for rooted directed acyclic graph isomorphism
Given two directed acyclic graphs $G_1$ and $G_2$, and their roots $r_1$ and $r_2$, is there a polynomial algorithm to determine if $G_1$ and $G_2$ are isomorphic?
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Does every directed graph have a directed coloring with $4$ colors?
Every finite directed graph has a majority coloring with $4$ colors. (The notion of majority coloring is defined below.)
Question. Can every infinite directed graph be majority-colored with $4$ ...
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Decreasing the directed chromatic number of a digraph by adding an edge
The chromatic number of an undirected graph can never be decreased by adding an edge. However, things are not that clear when we deal with coloring directed graphs - but first, the definition of this ...
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Name for Directed Edges in Digraphs
Graph theory originated in German speaking countries and there directed edges are called "Pfeil" which translates to "arrow", which makes sense, because arrows have distinguishable ...
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Generalized digraph homomorphisms and graph cores
Given any digraphs $G$ and $H$ we say a surjection $f:V(G)\to V(H)$ reduces $G$ to $H$ if and only if it satisfies $(u,v)\in E(G)\iff (f(u),f(v))\in E(H)$. Where if there exists at least one ...
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Blocking directed paths on a DAG with a linear number of vertex defects
Let $G=(V,E)$ be a directed acyclic graph.
Define the set of all directed paths in $G$ by $\Gamma$.
Given a subset $W\subseteq V$, let
$\Gamma_W\subseteq \Gamma$ be the set of all paths in $\Gamma$ ...
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Orientability of $\mathbb{Z}^n$
For any set $X$ set $[X]^2 = \{\{x,y\}: x,y\in X, x\neq y\}$. If $n\geq 2$ is an integer, we endow $\mathbb{Z}$ with a graph structure in the following way. If $x,y\in \mathbb{Z}^n$ we say $x,y$ are ...
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an inverse semigroup (and perhaps a $C^*\!$-algebra) associated with a directed graph
The following inverse semigroup associated to a directed graph came up in my research. I've read that from an inverse semigroup one may derive a $C^*\!$-algebra whose generators are partial isometries ...
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In the context of directed graphs is it standard notation to allow an element of an independent vertex set to be contained in a loop?
Given any relation $R$, that is, any set of ordered pairs, we can associate a unique digraph $D$ to our relation $R$ by setting $D=(\text{fld}(R),R)$ where $\text{fld}(R)=\text{dom}(R)\cup\text{rng}(R)...
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Similarities between isomorphism classes of homeomorphic directed graphs
To clarify, I'm speaking of homeomorphisms in a graph theoretic context, defined by subdivisions of arcs in a directed graph. A subdivision of an arc $(x,z)$ in a directed graph is obtained by ...
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Orientations in connected bridgeless graphs
Let $n\geq 3$ be an integer, set $[n] = \{1,\ldots,n\}$ and let $G=([n],E)$ be an undirected connected bridgeless graph. Is there an orientation (explanation below) of $G$ such that for all $a\neq b\...
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Tournaments with exactly one directed Hamiltonian path
Every tournament contains a directed Hamiltonian path (a path visiting every vertex exactly once).
Suppose that $T$ is a tournament on $[n]:=\{1,\ldots,n\}$ for some integer $n\geq 2$ with exactly ...
