The score sequences with unique tournament that has minimum number of upsets
Abstract
Let be a tournament with nondecreasing score sequence and be its tournament matrix. An upset of corresponds to an entry above the main diagonal of . Given a feasible score sequence , Fulkerson~(1965) gave a simple recursive construction for a tournament with score sequence and the minimum number of upsets, and Hacioglu et al. (2019) provided a construction for all of such tournament matrices. Let denote the set of tournament matrices with score sequence that have minimum number of upsets. Brauldi and Li~(1983) characterized the strong score sequences ( is strong if a tournament with score sequence is strongly connected) with . In this article, we characterize all feasible score sequences with and give an explicit formula for the number of the feasible score sequences with .
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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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12 pages