On the number of 5-cycles in a tournament
Combinatorics
2017-01-17 v3
Abstract
We find an exact formula for the number of directed 5-cycles in a tournament in terms of its edge score sequence. We use this formula to find both upper and lower bounds on the number of 5-cycles in any -tournament. In particular, we show that the maximum number of 5-cycles is asymptotically equal to , the expected number 5-cycles in a random tournament (), with equality (up to order of magnitude) for almost all tournaments. Note that this means that almost all -tournaments contain the maximum number of -cycles.
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@article{arxiv.1410.6828,
title = {On the number of 5-cycles in a tournament},
author = {Natasha Komarov and John Mackey},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.6828},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
22 pages, 3 figures