Majority colorings of sparse digraphs

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.37236/10067" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.37236/10067</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.37236/10067" target="_blank" >10.37236/10067</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Majority colorings of sparse digraphs

Original language description

A majority coloring of a directed graph is a vertex-coloring in which every vertex has the same color as at most half of its out-neighbors. Kreutzer, Oum, Seymour, van der Zypen and Wood proved that every digraph has a majority 4-coloring and conjectured that every digraph admits a majority 3-coloring. They observed that the Local Lemma implies the conjecture for digraphs of large enough minimum out-degree if, crucially, the maximum in-degree is bounded by a(n exponential) function of the minimum out-degree. Our goal in this paper is to develop alternative methods that allow the verification of the conjecture for natural, broad digraph classes, without any restriction on the in-degrees. Among others, we prove the conjecture 1) for digraphs with chromatic number at most 6 or dichromatic number at most 3, and thus for all planar digraphs; and 2) for digraphs with maximum out-degree at most 4. The benchmark case of r-regular digraphs remains open for r is an element of[5, 143]. Our inductive proofs depend on loaded inductive statements about precoloring extensions of list-colorings. This approach also gives rise to stronger conclusions, involving the choosability version of majority coloring. We also give further evidence towards the existence of majority-3-colorings by showing that every digraph has a fractional majority 3.9602-coloring. Moreover we show that every digraph with large enough minimum out-degree has a fractional majority (2 + epsilon)-coloring.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Electronic Journal of Combinatorics

ISSN

1077-8926

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

28

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

1-17

UT code for WoS article

000670355400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85107211371