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Decomposition of balanced multipartite tournaments into strongly connected tournaments

Combinatorics 2018-12-18 v1

Abstract

Decomposing a digraph into subdigraphs with a fixed structure or property is a classical problem in graph theory and a useful tool in a number of applications of networks and communication. A digraph is strongly connected if it contains a directed path from each vertex to all others. In this paper we consider multipartite tournaments, and we study the existence of a partition of a multipartite tournament with cc partite sets into strongly connected cc-tournaments. This is a continuation of the study started in 1999 by Volkmann of the existence of strongly connected subtournaments in multipartite tournaments.

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@article{arxiv.1812.06342,
  title  = {Decomposition of balanced multipartite tournaments into strongly connected tournaments},
  author = {A. P. Figueroa and J. J. Montellano-Ballesteros and M. Olsen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.06342},
  year   = {2018}
}

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17 pages