Polynomial-time acyclic k-dicolouring conjecture for tournaments

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For a tournament TT, let χa(T)\vec{\chi}_{\rm a}(T) denote its acyclic dichromatic number. A fixed integer k3k\geq3 is treated as a constant rather than part of the input.

Tournament acyclic dicolouring algorithm conjecture. For every fixed k3k\geq3, it is polynomial-time decidable whether a tournament TT satisfies

χa(T)k.\vec{\chi}_{\rm a}(T)\leq k.

The case k=2k=2 is proved polynomial-time solvable in the paper, whereas the corresponding statement for every fixed k3k\geq3 is posed as an open complexity problem.

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Jørgen Bang-Jensen, Lucas Picasarri-Arrieta and Anders Yeo, “Acyclic dichromatic number of oriented graphs”, arXiv:2511.20246 (2025).

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