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Authors:

M. Choi

Myungho Choi

Seoul National University

email: nums8080@snu.ac.kr

0000-0001-8921-1565

M. Kwak

Minki Kwak

Seoul National University

email: limpkmk@naver.com

S-R. Kim

Suh-Ryung Kim

Seoul National University

email: srkim@snu.ac.kr

Title:

The triangle-free graphs that are competition graphs of multipartite tournaments

Source:

Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

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:

Keywords:

competition graph, triangle-free graph, multipartite tournament

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