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The score sequences with unique tournament that has minimum number of upsets

Combinatorics 2019-11-21 v1

Abstract

Let TT be a tournament with nondecreasing score sequence RR and AA be its tournament matrix. An upset of TT corresponds to an entry above the main diagonal of AA. Given a feasible score sequence RR, Fulkerson~(1965) gave a simple recursive construction for a tournament with score sequence RR and the minimum number of upsets, and Hacioglu et al. (2019) provided a construction for all of such tournament matrices. Let Umin(R)U_{\min}(R) denote the set of tournament matrices with score sequence RR that have minimum number of upsets. Brauldi and Li~(1983) characterized the strong score sequences RR (RR is strong if a tournament TT with score sequence RR is strongly connected) with Umin(R)=1|U_{\min}(R)|=1. In this article, we characterize all feasible score sequences RR with Umin(R)=1|U_{\min}(R)|=1 and give an explicit formula for the number of the feasible score sequences RR with Umin(R)=1|U_{\min}(R)|=1.

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@article{arxiv.1911.08653,
  title  = {The score sequences with unique tournament that has minimum number of upsets},
  author = {Yuming Zhang and Xinmin Hou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.08653},
  year   = {2019}
}

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