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The triangle-free graphs that are competition graphs of multipartite tournaments
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Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory 45(1) (2025) 191-217
Received: 2023-03-25 , Revised: 2023-10-10 , Accepted: 2023-10-10 , Available online: 2023-11-07 , https://doi.org/10.7151/dmgt.2525
Abstract:
In this paper, we discover all the triangle-free graphs that are competition
graphs of multipartite tournaments.
Keywords:
competition graph, triangle-free graph, multipartite tournament
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