We consider the complexity of oriented homomorphism and two of its variants, namely strong oriented homomorphism and pushable homomorphism, for planar graphs with large girth. In each case, we consider the smallest target graph such that the corresponding homomorphism is NP-complete. These target graphs T4, T5, and T6 have 4, 5, and 6 vertices, respectively. For i ∈ {4, 5, 6} and for every g, w...

We conjecture that every planar graph of odd-girth at least 11 admits a homomorphism to the Coxeter graph. Supporting this conjecture, we prove that every planar graph of odd-girth at least 17 admits a homomorphism to the Coxeter graph.

We consider a database composed of a set of conceptual graphs. Using conceptual graphs and graph homomorphism it is possible to build a basic query-answering mechanism based on semantic search. Graph homomorphism defines a partial order over conceptual graphs. Since graph homomorphism checking is an NP-Complete problem, the main requirement for database organizing and managing algorithms is to ...

Extremal problems for graph homomorphisms have recently become a topic of much research. Let hom(G,H) denote the number of homomorphisms from G to H. A natural set of problems arises when we fix an image graph H and determine which graph(s) G on n vertices and m edges maximize hom(G,H). We prove that if H is loop-threshold, then, for every n and m, there is a threshold graph G with n vertices a...

A graph homomorphism is a vertex map which carries edges from a source graph to edgesin a target graph. The instances of the Weighted Maximum H-Colourable Subgraph problem(MAX H -COL) are edge-weighted graphs G and the objective is to find a subgraph of G that hasmaximal total edge weight, under the condition that the subgraph has a homomorphism to H ;note that for H = Kk th...

Graph homomorphism is an ubiquitous notion in graph theory with a variety of applications, and a first step to understanding more general constraints given by relational structures, see e.g. the monograph of Hell and Nešetřil [5]. We write μ : G→ H if μ is a homomorphism from the graph G to H, or simply G → H if such a homomorphism exists. For example, a graph G is k-colorable iff it has a homo...

A homomorphism from a graph G to a graph H is a vertex mapping f from the vertex set of G to the vertex set of H such that there is an edge between vertices f(u) and f(v) of H whenever there is an edge between vertices u and v of G. The H-Colouring problem is to decide if a graph G allows a homomorphism to a fixed graph H . We continue a study on a variant of this problem, namely the Surjective...