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Multiplicativity of acyclic local tournaments

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A homomorphism of a digraph to another digraph is an edge-preserving vertex mapping. A digraphH is said to be multiplicative if the set of digraphs which do not admit a homomorphism toH is closed under categorical product. In this paper we discuss the multiplicativity of acyclic Hamiltonian digraphs, i.e., acyclic digraphs which contains a Hamiltonian path. As a consequence, we give a complete characterization of acyclic local tournaments with respect to multiplicativity.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Georgia State University, 30303-3083, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Huishan Zhou

  2. Institute of Operations Research, Qufu Normal University, Shandong, P. R. China

    Huishan Zhou

  3. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Simon Fraser University, V5A 1S6, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

    Xuding Zhu

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Zhou, H., Zhu, X. Multiplicativity of acyclic local tournaments. Combinatorica 17, 135–145 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01196137

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