Minimum cost homomorphisms to locally semicomplete digraphs and quasi-transitive digraphs

For digraphs G and H, a homomorphism of G to H is a mapping f : V (G)→V (H) such that uv ∈ A(G) implies f(u)f(v) ∈ A(H). If, moreover, each vertex u ∈ V (G) is associated with costs ci(u), i ∈ V (H), then the cost of a homomorphism f is ∑ u∈V (G) cf(u)(u). For each fixed digraph H, the minimum cost homomorphism problem for H, denoted MinHOM(H), can be formulated as follows: Given an input digraph G, together with costs ci(u), u ∈ V (G), i ∈ V (H), decide whether there exists a homomorphism of G to H and, if one exists, to find one of minimum cost. Minimum cost homomorphism problems encompass (or are related to) many well-studied optimization problems such as the minimum cost chromatic partition and repair analysis problems. We focus on the minimum cost homomorphism problem for locally semicomplete digraphs and quasi-transitive digraphs which are two well-known generalizations of tournaments. Using graph-theoretic characterization results for the two digraph classes, we obtain a full dichotomy classification of the complexity of minimum cost homomorphism problems for both classes. 218 GUPTA, GUTIN, KARIMI, KIM AND RAFIEY