This paper reports the characteristics of and mutual relationships between various combinatorial structures that give rise to certain imprimitive nonsymmetric three-class association schemes. Nontrivial relation graphs of an imprimitive symmetric 2-class association scheme are m ◦ Kr, (the union of m copies of the complete graph on r vertices) and its complement m ◦Kr, (the complete m-partite s...

The concept of a consecutive-d digraph was proposed by Du, Hsu and Hwang as a generalization of de Bruijn digraphs, Kautz digraphs, and their generalizations given by Imase and Itoh and Reddy, Pradhan and Kuhl. In this paper we determine the connectivity of consecutive-d digraphs and study how to modify consecutive-d digraphs to reach maximum connectivity. Our results will generalize and improv...

it is known that the directed cycle of order $n$ uniquely achieves the minimum spectral radius among all strongly connected digraphs of order $nge 3$. in this paper, among others, we determine the digraphs which achieve the second, the third and the fourth minimum spectral radii respectively among strongly connected digraphs of order $nge 4$.

Tournaments are without doubt the best studied class of directed graphs [3, 6]. The generalizations of tournaments arise in order to extend the well-known results on tournaments to more general classes of directed graphs. Moreover, the knowledge about generalizations of tournaments has allowed to deepen our understanding of tournaments themselves. The semicomplete digraphs, the semicomplete mul...

Among unicyclic digraphs and signed digraphs with fixed number of vertices, the digraphs and signed digraphs with minimal and maximal energy are already determined. In this paper we address the problem of finding bicyclic signed digraphs with extremal energy. We obtain minimal and maximal energy among all those n -vertex bicyclic signed digraphs which contain vertex-disjoint signed directed cyc...

4 We prove that the weak k-linkage problem is polynomial for every fixed k for totally Φ5 decomposable digraphs, under appropriate hypothesis on Φ. We then apply this and recent results 6 by Fradkin and Seymour (on the weak k-linkage problem for digraphs of bounded independence 7 number or bounded cut-width) to get polynomial algorithms for some class of digraphs like quasi8 transitive digraphs...

We obtain upper bounds for the upper generalized exponents of digraphs in the class of ministrong digraphs and in the class of non-primitive ministrong digraphs, characterize the corresponding extremal digraphs, and discuss the numbers attainable as upper generalized exponents of ministrong digraphs.

We study digraphs preserved by a Maltsev operation: Maltsev digraphs. We show that these digraphs retract either onto a directed path or to the disjoint union of directed cycles, showing in this way that the constraint satisfaction problem for Maltsev digraphs is in logspace, L. We then generalize results from Kazda (2011) to show that a Maltsev digraph is preserved not only by a majority opera...