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  Editors-in-chief: C. A. Athanasiadis, T. Lam, A. Munemasa, H. Van Maldeghem
ISSN 0925-9899 (print) • ISSN 1572-9192 (electronic)
 

Homomorphisms of Edge-Colored Graphs and Coxeter Groups

N. Alon and T.H. Marshall2

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DOI: 10.1023/A:1008647514949

Abstract

Let G 1 = ( V 1 , E 1 )\text and G 2 = ( V 2 , E 2 ) G_1 = (V_1 ,E_1 ){\text{ and }}G_2 = (V_2 ,E_2 ) be two edge-colored graphs (without multiple edges or loops). A homomorphism is a mapping V 1 \textregistered  V 2 V_1 \mapsto V_2 for which, for every pair of adjacent vertices u and v of G 1, phiv( u) and phiv(v) are adjacent in G 2 and the color of the edge phiv(u) phiv(v) is the same as that of the edge uv.
We prove a number of results asserting the existence of a graph G , edge-colored from a set C, into which every member from a given class of graphs, also edge-colored from C, maps homomorphically.

Pages: 5–13

Keywords: graph; homomorphism; Coxeter group; reflection group

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