Acyclic subgraphs of tournaments with high chromatic number

Fuente: arXiv
Salvato in:
Dettagli Bibliografici
Autori principali: Fox, Jacob, Kwan, Matthew, Sudakov, Benny
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2019
Soggetti:
Accesso online:
Tags: Aggiungi Tag
Nessun Tag, puoi essere il primo ad aggiungerne!!
_version_ 1866913369259245568
author Fox, Jacob
Kwan, Matthew
Sudakov, Benny
author_facet Fox, Jacob
Kwan, Matthew
Sudakov, Benny
contents We prove that every $n$-vertex tournament $G$ has an acyclic subgraph with chromatic number at least $n^{5/9-o(1)}$, while there exists an $n$-vertex tournament $G$ whose every acyclic subgraph has chromatic number at most $n^{3/4+o(1)}$. This establishes in a strong form a conjecture of Nassar and Yuster and improves on another result of theirs. Our proof combines probabilistic and spectral techniques together with some additional ideas. In particular, we prove a lemma showing that every tournament with many transitive subtournaments has a large subtournament that is almost transitive. This may be of independent interest.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_1912_07722
institution arXiv
publishDate 2019
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Acyclic subgraphs of tournaments with high chromatic number
Fox, Jacob
Kwan, Matthew
Sudakov, Benny
Combinatorics
We prove that every $n$-vertex tournament $G$ has an acyclic subgraph with chromatic number at least $n^{5/9-o(1)}$, while there exists an $n$-vertex tournament $G$ whose every acyclic subgraph has chromatic number at most $n^{3/4+o(1)}$. This establishes in a strong form a conjecture of Nassar and Yuster and improves on another result of theirs. Our proof combines probabilistic and spectral techniques together with some additional ideas. In particular, we prove a lemma showing that every tournament with many transitive subtournaments has a large subtournament that is almost transitive. This may be of independent interest.
title Acyclic subgraphs of tournaments with high chromatic number
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.07722