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Moon-type theorems on circuits in strongly connected tournaments of order $N$ and diameter $D$

Combinatorics 2023-11-23 v1

Abstract

Let TT be a strongly connected tournament of order n4n\ge 4 whose diameter does not exceed d3.d\ge 3. Denote by c(T)c_{\ell}(T) the number of circuits of length \ell in T.T. In our recent paper, we construct a strongly connected tournament Td,nT_{d,n} of order nn with diameter dd and conjecture that c(T)c(Td,n)c_{\ell}(T)\ge c_{\ell}(T_{d,n}) for any =3,...,n.\ell=3,...,n. In particular, for d=n1,d=n-1, this inequality is true and yields the known Moon (lower) bound c(T)n+1.c_{\ell}(T)\ge n-\ell+1. Moreover, we suggest that if n+32d,n+3\le 2d, then for any given \ell taken in the range nd+3,...,d,n-d+3,...,d, the equality c(T)=c(Td,n)c_{\ell}(T)=c_{\ell}(T_{d,n}) implies that TT is isomorphic to Td,nT_{d,n} or its converse Td,n.T_{d,n}^{-}. For d=n1,d=n-1, the corresponding particular statement is nothing else than Las Vergnas' theorem. Recently, we have confirmed the posed conjecture for the case d=n2.d=n-2. In the present paper, we show that it is also true for d=n3.d=n-3.

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@article{arxiv.2311.13377,
  title  = {Moon-type theorems on circuits in strongly connected tournaments of order $N$ and diameter $D$},
  author = {Sergey Savchenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.13377},
  year   = {2023}
}