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Walecki tournaments with an arc that lies in a unique directed triangle

Combinatorics 2024-07-08 v1

Abstract

A Walecki tournament is any tournament that can be formed by choosing an orientation for each of the Hamilton cycles in the Walecki decomposition of a complete graph on an odd number of vertices. In this paper, we show that if some arc in a Walecki tournament on at least 77 vertices lies in exactly one directed triangle, then there is a vertex of the tournament (the vertex typically labelled * in the decomposition) that is fixed under every automorphism of the tournament. Furthermore, any isomorphism between such Walecki tournaments maps the vertex labelled * in one to the vertex labelled * in the other. We also show that among Walecki tournaments with a signature of even length 2k2k, of the 22k2^{2k} possible signatures, at least 2k2^k produce tournaments that have an arc that lies in a unique directed triangle (and therefore to which our result applies).

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@article{arxiv.2407.03807,
  title  = {Walecki tournaments with an arc that lies in a unique directed triangle},
  author = {Joy Morris},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.03807},
  year   = {2024}
}

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