On orientations with forbidden out-degrees

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Main Authors: Henderschedt, Owen, McDonald, Jessica
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McDonald, Jessica
contents Let $G$ be a $d$-regular graph and let $F\subseteq\{0, 1, 2, \ldots, d\}$ be a list of forbidden out-degrees. Akbari, Dalirrooyfard, Ehsani, Ozeki, and Sherkati conjectured that if $|F|<\tfrac{1}{2}d$, then $G$ should admit an $F$-avoiding orientation, i.e., an orientation where no out-degrees are in the forbidden list $F$. The conjecture is known for $d\leq 4$ due to work of Ma and Lu, and here we extend this to $d\leq 6$. The conjecture has also been studied in a generalized version, where $d, F$ are changed from constant values to functions $d(v), F(v)$ that vary over all $v\in V(G)$. We provide support for this generalized version by verifying it for some new cases, including when $G$ is 2-degenerate and when every $F(v)$ has some specific structure.
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spellingShingle On orientations with forbidden out-degrees
Henderschedt, Owen
McDonald, Jessica
Combinatorics
Let $G$ be a $d$-regular graph and let $F\subseteq\{0, 1, 2, \ldots, d\}$ be a list of forbidden out-degrees. Akbari, Dalirrooyfard, Ehsani, Ozeki, and Sherkati conjectured that if $|F|<\tfrac{1}{2}d$, then $G$ should admit an $F$-avoiding orientation, i.e., an orientation where no out-degrees are in the forbidden list $F$. The conjecture is known for $d\leq 4$ due to work of Ma and Lu, and here we extend this to $d\leq 6$. The conjecture has also been studied in a generalized version, where $d, F$ are changed from constant values to functions $d(v), F(v)$ that vary over all $v\in V(G)$. We provide support for this generalized version by verifying it for some new cases, including when $G$ is 2-degenerate and when every $F(v)$ has some specific structure.
title On orientations with forbidden out-degrees
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05095