Making a tournament indecomposable by one subtournament-reversal operation
Combinatorics
2021-04-13 v1
Abstract
Given a tournament , a module of is a subset of such that for and , if and only if . The trivial modules of are , and . The tournament is indecomposable if all its modules are trivial; otherwise it is decomposable. Let be a tournament with at least five vertices. In a previous paper, the authors proved that the smallest number of arcs that must be reversed to make indecomposable satisfies , and this bound is sharp, where is the order of . In this paper, we prove that if the tournament is not transitive of even order, then can be made indecomposable by reversing the arcs of a subtournament of . We denote by the smallest size of such a subtournament. We also prove that .
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@article{arxiv.2104.04851,
title = {Making a tournament indecomposable by one subtournament-reversal operation},
author = {Houmem Belkhechine and Cherifa Ben Salha},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.04851},
year = {2021}
}
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15 pages