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Unavoidable trees in tournaments

Combinatorics 2016-09-13 v1

Abstract

An oriented tree TT on nn vertices is unavoidable if every tournament on nn vertices contains a copy of TT. In this paper we give a sufficient condition for TT to be unavoidable, and use this to prove that almost all labelled oriented trees are unavoidable, verifying a conjecture of Bender and Wormald. We additionally prove that every tournament on n+o(n)n + o(n) vertices contains a copy of every oriented tree TT on nn vertices with polylogarithmic maximum degree, improving a result of K\"uhn, Mycroft and Osthus.

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@article{arxiv.1609.03393,
  title  = {Unavoidable trees in tournaments},
  author = {Richard Mycroft and Tássio Naia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.03393},
  year   = {2016}
}
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