We provide a new proof of a theorem of Saks which is an extension of Greene’s Theorem to acyclic digraphs, by reducing it to a similar, known extension of Greene and Kleitman’s Theorem. This suggests that the Greene-Kleitman Theorem is stronger than Greene’s Theorem on posets. We leave it as an open question whether the same holds for all digraphs, that is, does Berge’s conjecture concerning pa...

Primitive digraphs on n vertices with exponents at least b!n=2c + 2, where !n = (n 1) + 1, are considered. For n 3, all such digraphs containing a Hamilton cycle are characterized; and for n 6, all such digraphs containing a cycle of length n 1 are characterized. Each eigenvalue of any stochastic matrix having a digraph in one of these two classes is proved to be geometrically simple.

Min-Max orderings correspond to conservative lattice polymorphisms. Digraphs with Min-Max orderings have polynomial time solvable minimum cost homomorphism problems. They can also be viewed as digraph analogues of proper interval graphs and bigraphs. We give a forbidden structure characterization of digraphs with a Min-Max ordering which implies a polynomial time recognition algorithm. We also ...

The eigenvalues of a digraph are the eigenvalues of its adjacency matrix. The sum of the absolute values of the real part of the eigenvalues is called the energy of the digraph. The extremal energy of bicyclic digraphs with vertex-disjoint directed cycles is known. In this paper, we consider a class of bicyclic digraphs with exactly two linear subdigraphs of equal length. We find the minimal an...

Hamidoune’s connectivity results [11] for hierarchical Cayley digraphs are extended to Cayley coset digraphs and thus to arbitrary vertex transitive digraphs. It is shown that if a Cayley coset digraph can be hierarchically decomposed in a certain way, then it is optimally vertex connected. The results are obtained by extending the methods used in [11]. They are used to show that cycle-prefix g...

In this paper, we give two constructions of weakly distance-regular digraphs of girth 2, and prove that certain quotient digraph of a commutative weakly distancetransitive digraph of girth 2 is a distance-transitive graph. As an application of the result, we not only give some constructions of weakly distance-regular digraphs which are not weakly distance-transitive, but determine a special cla...

We study list homomorphism problems L-HOM(H) for the class of reflexive digraphs H (digraphs in which each vertex has a loop). These problems have been intensively studied in the case of undirected graphs H, and appear to be more difficult for digraphs. However, it is known that each problem L-HOM(H) is NP-complete or polynomial time solvable. In this paper we focus on reflexive digraphs. We in...

A seminal result by Lovász states that two digraphs A and B (possibly with loops) are isomorphic if and only if for every digraph X the number of homomorphisms X → A equals the number of homomorphisms X → B. Lovász used this result to deduce certain cancellation properties for the direct product of digraphs. We develop an analogous result for the class of digraphs without loops, and with weak h...

Interval digraphs were introduced by West et all. They can be recognized in polynomial time and admit a characterization in terms of incidence matrices. Nevertheless, we do not have a forbidden structure characterization nor a low-degree polynomial time algorithm. We introduce a new class of ‘adjusted interval digraphs’, obtained by a slight change in the definition. By contrast, these digraphs...

sponding adjacency matrices is defined and then applied to investigate the so called cobweb posets and their Hasse digraphs called KoDAGs. KoDAGs are special orderable Directed Acyclic Graphs which are cover relation digraphs of cobweb posets introduced by the author few years ago. KoDAGs appear to be distinguished family of Ferrers digraphs which are natural join of a corresponding ordering ch...