Abstract

A digraph is semicomplete if any two vertices are connected by at least one arc and is locally semicomplete if the out-neighbourhood and in-neighbourhood of any vertex induce a semicomplete digraph. In this paper we study various subclasses of locally semicomplete digraphs for which we give structural decomposition theorems. As a consequence we obtain several applications, among which an answer to a conjecture of Naserasr and the first and third authors (Aboulker et al., 2021): if an oriented graph is such that the out-neighbourhood of every vertex induces a transitive tournament, then one can partition its vertex set into two acyclic digraphs.

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