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 di...

For digraphs D and H , a mapping f : V (D)→V (H) is a homomorphism of D to H if uv ∈ A(D) implies f(u)f(v) ∈ A(H). For a fixed digraph H , the homomorphism problem is to decide whether an input digraph D admits a homomorphism to H or not, and is denoted as HOM(H). An optimization version of the homomorphism problem was motivated by a realworld problem in defence logistics and was introduced in ...

We extend certain homomorphisms defined on the higher Torelli subgroups of the mapping class group to crossed homomorphisms defined on the entire mapping class group. In particular, for every k ≥ 2, we construct a crossed homomorphism ǫk which extends Morita’s homomorphism τ̃k to the entire mapping class group. From this crossed homomorphism we also obtain a crossed homomorphism extending the kt...

Minimum cost homomorphism problems can be viewed as a generalization of list homomorphism problems. They also extend two well-known graph colouring problems: the minimum colour sum problem and the optimum cost chromatic partition problem. In both of these problems, the cost function meets an additional constraint: the cost of using a specific colour is the same for every vertex of the input gra...

In this paper, we define some new homomorphism-monotone parameters for hypergraphs. Using these parameters, we extend some graph homomorphism results to hypergraph case. Also, we present some bounds for some well-known invariants of hypergraphs such as fractional chromatic number,independent numer and some other invariants of hyergraphs, in terms of these parameters.

Graph homomorphisms are used to study good characterizations for coloring problems (Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 384 (1996), 1281–1297; Discrete Math. 22 (1978), 287–300). Particularly, the following concept arises in this context: A pair of graphs (A, B) is called a homomorphism duality if for any graph G either there exists a homomorphism σ : A→ G or there exists a homomorphism τ : G → B but not b...

For digraphs D and H, a mapping f : V (D)→V (H) is a homomorphism of D to H if uv ∈ A(D) implies f(u)f(v) ∈ A(H). If, moreover, each vertex u ∈ V (D) is associated with costs ci(u), i ∈ V (H), then the cost of the homomorphism f is ∑ u∈V (D) cf(u)(u). For each fixed digraph H, we have the minimum cost homomorphism problem for H. The problem is to decide, for an input graph D with costs ci(u), u...

In this paper, a new concept of anti-homomorphism between two fuzzy groups G and G‫׀‬ is defined many results analogous to homomorphism of groups are established

Homomorphism complexes were introduced by Lovász to study topological obstructions to graph colorings. We show that folding in the second parameter of the homomorphism complex yields a homotopy equivalence. We study how the Mycielski construction changes the homotopy type of the homomorphism complex. We construct graphs showing that the topological bound obtained by odd cycles can be arbitraril...

On a closed symplectic surface Σ of genus two or more, we give a new construction of an extended flux map (a crossed homomorphism from the symplectomorphism group Symp(Σ) to the cohomology group H(Σ;R) that extends the flux homomorphism). This construction uses the topology of the Jacobian of the surface and a correction factor related to the Johnson homomorphism. For surfaces of genus three or...