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Vestn. Udmurtsk. Univ. Mat. Mekh. Komp. Nauki, 2015 Volume 25, Issue 4, Pages 441–452 (Mi vuu498)

This article is cited in 4 papers

MATHEMATICS

The graph of acyclic digraphs

Kh. Sh. Al' Dzhabriab, V. I. Rodionovb

a University of Al-Qadisiyah, ul. Babilon, 29, Al Diwaniyah, Iraq
b Udmurt State University, ul. Universitetskaya, 1, Izhevsk, 426034, Russia

Abstract: The paper introduces the concept of a binary reflexive relation of adjacency on the set of all binary relations of a set $X$ (in terms of characteristic functions) and determines an algebraic system consisting of all binary relations of the set and of all unordered pairs of adjacent binary relations. If $X$ is a finite set then this algebraic system is a graph (“the graph of graphs”). It is proved that the diameter of a graph of binary relations is 2. It is shown that if $\sigma$ and $\tau$ are adjacent relations, then $\sigma$ is an acyclic relation (finite acyclic digraph) if and only if $\tau$ is an acyclic relation. An explicit formula for the number of connected components of a graph of acyclic relations is received.

Keywords: binary relation, acyclic digraph.

UDC: 519.175+519.115

MSC: 05C30

Received: 23.10.2015

DOI: 10.20537/vm150401



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