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On Hamilton Decompositions

General Mathematics 2008-06-28 v8

Abstract

P. J. Kelly conjectured in 1968 that every diregular tournament on (2n+1) points can be decomposed in directed Hamilton circuits [1]. We define so called leading diregular tournament on (2n+1) points and show that it can be decomposed in directed Hamilton circuits when (2n+1) is a prime number. When (2n+1) is not a prime number this method does not work and we will need to devise some another method. We also propose a general method to find Hamilton decomposition of certain tournament for all sizes.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.0806.0251,
  title  = {On Hamilton Decompositions},
  author = {Dhananjay P. Mehendale},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.0251},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

10 pages. A correction in theorem 2.1is carried out

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