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A note on the orientation covering number

Given a graph $G$, its orientation covering number $σ(G)$ is the smallest non-negative integer $k$ with the property that we can choose $k$ orientations of $G$ such that whenever $x, y, z$ are vertices of $G$ with $xy,xz\in E(G)$ then there is a chosen orientation in which both $xy$ and $xz$ are oriented away from $x$. Esperet, Gimbel and King showed that $σ(G)\leq σ\left(K_{χ(G)}\right)$, where $χ(G)$ is the chromatic number of $G$, and asked whether we always have equality. In this note we prove that it is indeed always the case that $σ(G)=σ(K_{χ(G)})$. We also determine the exact value of $σ(K_n)$ explicitly for `most' values of $n$.