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An approximate version of Sumner's universal tournament conjecture

Combinatorics 2015-09-16 v1

Abstract

Sumner's universal tournament conjecture states that any tournament on 2n22n-2 vertices contains a copy of any directed tree on nn vertices. We prove an asymptotic version of this conjecture, namely that any tournament on (2+o(1))n(2+o(1))n vertices contains a copy of any directed tree on nn vertices. In addition, we prove an asymptotically best possible result for trees of bounded degree, namely that for any fixed Δ\Delta, any tournament on (1+o(1))n(1+o(1))n vertices contains a copy of any directed tree on nn vertices with maximum degree at most Δ\Delta.

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@article{arxiv.1010.4429,
  title  = {An approximate version of Sumner's universal tournament conjecture},
  author = {Daniela Kühn and Richard Mycroft and Deryk Osthus},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.4429},
  year   = {2015}
}

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36 pages

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