Let T be a 3-partite tournament. We say that a vertex v is −→ C3-free if v does not lie on any directed triangle of T . Let F3(T ) be the set of the −→ C3-free vertices in a 3-partite tournament and f3(T ) its cardinality. In a recent paper, it was proved that if T is a regular 3-partite tournament, then f3(T ) < n 9 , where n is the order of T . In this paper, we prove that f3(T ) ≤ n 12 . We ...

If x is a vertex of a digraph D, then we denote by d(x) and d−(x) the outdegree and the indegree of x, respectively. The global irregularity of a digraph D is defined by ig(D) = max{d+(x), d−(x)}−min{d+(y), d−(y)} over all vertices x and y of D (including x = y). If ig(D) = 0, then D is regular and if ig(D) ≤ 1, then D is almost regular. A c-partite tournament is an orientation of a complete c-...

Fix integers t ≥ r ≥ 2 and an r-uniform hypergraph F . We prove that the maximum number of edges in a t-partite r-uniform hypergraph on n vertices that contains no copy of F is ct,F ( n r ) + o(nr), where ct,F can be determined by a finite computation. We explicitly define a sequence F1, F2, . . . of r-uniform hypergraphs, and prove that the maximum number of edges in a t-chromatic r-uniform hy...

We derive some Moore-like bounds for multipartite digraphs, which extend those of bipartite digraphs, assuming that every vertex of a given partite set is adjacent to the same number of vertices (δ) in each of the other independent sets. We determine when a Moore multipartite digraph is weakly distanceregular. Within this framework, some necessary conditions for the existence of a Moore r-parti...

An orientation of a complete graph is a tournament, and an orientation of a complete n-partite graph is an n-partite tournament. For each n 2:: 4, there exist examples of strongly connected n-partite tournament without any strongly connected subtournaments of order p 2:: 4. If D is a digraph, then let d+ (x) be the out degree and d(x) the indegree of the vertex x in D. The minimum (maximum) out...

A graph G is r-equitably k-colorable if its vertex set can be partitioned into k independent sets, any two of which differ in size by at most r. The r-equitable chromatic threshold of a graph G, denoted by χr=(G), is the minimum k such that G is r-equitably k -colorable for all k ≥ k. Let G × H denote the Kronecker product of graphs G and H. In this paper, we completely determine the exact valu...

An n-tournament is an orientation of a complete n-partite graph. It was proved by J.A. Bondy in 1976 that every strongly connected n-partite tournament has an n-cycle. We characterize strongly connected n-partite tournaments in which a longest cycle is of length n and, thus, settle a problem in L. Volkmann, Discrete Math. 245 (2002) 19-53.

By using the Szemerédi Regularity Lemma [10], Alon and Sudakov [1] recently extended the classical Andrásfai-Erdős-Sós theorem [2] to cover general graphs. We prove, without using the Regularity Lemma, that the following stronger statement is true. Given any (r+1)-partite graph H whose smallest part has t vertices, there exists a constant C such that for any given ε > 0 and sufficiently large n...

Let R be a ring with unity. The graph Γ(R) is a graph with vertices as elements of R, where two distinct vertices a and b are adjacent if and only if Ra + Rb = R. Let Γ2(R) is the subgraph of Γ(R) induced by the non-unit elements. H.R. Maimani et al. [H.R. Maimani et al., Comaximal graph of commutative rings, J. Algebra 319 (2008) 1801-1808] proved that: “If R is a commutative ring with unity a...