Given k pairs of vertices (si,ti), 1≤i≤k, of a digraph G, how can we test whether there exist k vertex-disjoint directed paths from si to ti for 1≤i≤k? This is NP-complete in general digraphs, even for k=2, but for k=2 there is a polynomial-time algorithm when G is a tournament (or more generally, a semicomplete digraph), due to Bang-Jensen and Thomassen. Here we prove that for all fixed k there is a polynomial-time algorithm to solve the problem when G is semicomplete.
@article{arxiv.1411.6226,
title = {Disjoint paths in tournaments},
author = {Maria Chudnovsky and Paul Seymour and Alex Scott},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.6226},
year = {2014}
}