On the Distinguishing Number of Cyclic Tournaments: Towards Albertson-Collins Conjecture
Résumé
A distinguishing $r$-labeling of a digraph $G$ is a mapping $\lambda$ from the set of vertices
of $G$ to the set of labels $\{1,\dots,r\}$ such that
no nontrivial automorphism of $G$ preserves all the labels.
The distinguishing number $D(G)$ of $G$ is then the smallest $r$ for which $G$ admits a
distinguishing $r$-labeling.
Albertson and Collins conjectured in 1999
that $D(T)\le 2$ for every cyclic tournament~$T$ of (odd) order $2p+1\ge 3$,
with $V(T)=\{0,\dots,2p\}$, and,
more precisely, that the canonical 2-labeling $\lambda^*$ given by
$\lambda^*(i)=1$ if and only if $i\le p$ is distinguishing.
We prove that whenever one of the subtournaments of $T$ induced by vertices $\{0,\dots,p\}$
or $\{p+1,\dots,2p\}$ is rigid, $T$ satisfies Albertson-Collins Conjecture.
Using this property, we prove that several classes of cyclic tournaments satisfy
Albertson-Collins Conjecture.
Moreover, we also prove that every Paley tournament satisfies Albertson-Collins Conjecture.
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