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Balanced Non-Transitive Dice II: Tournaments

Combinatorics 2017-06-29 v1

Abstract

We further study sets of labeled dice in which the relation "is a better die than" is non-transitive. Focusing on sets with an additional symmetry we call "balance," we prove that sets of nn such mm-sided dice exist for all n,m3n,m \geq 3. We then show how to construct a set of nn dice such that the relation behaves according to the direction of the arrows of any tournament (complete directed graph) on nn vertices.

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@article{arxiv.1706.08986,
  title  = {Balanced Non-Transitive Dice II: Tournaments},
  author = {Alex Schaefer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.08986},
  year   = {2017}
}

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8 pages, 1 figure

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