Complexity of locally-injective homomorphisms to tournaments

Abstract

For oriented graphs $G$ and $H$, a homomorphism $f:G\to H$ is locally-injective if, for every $v\in V(G)$, it is injective when restricted to some combination of the in-neighbourhood and out-neighbourhood of $v$. Two of the possible definitions of local-injectivity are examined. In each case it is shown that the associated homomorphism problem is NP-complete when $H$ is a reflexive tournament on three or more vertices with a loop at every vertex, and solvable in polynomial time when $H$ is a reflexive tournament on two or fewer vertices.

22 pages, 16 figures