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We study universal cycles of the set ${\cal P}(n,k)$ of $k$-partitions of the set $[n]:=\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$ and prove that the transition digraph associated with ${\cal P}(n,k)$ is Eulerian. But this does not imply that universal cycles (or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-16 Zach Higgins , Elizabeth Kelley , Bertilla Sieben , Anant Godbole

A universal cycle (u-cycle) is a compact listing of a collection of combinatorial objects. In this paper, we use natural encodings of these objects to show the existence of u-cycles for collections of subsets, matroids, restricted…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-08-16 Antonio Blanca , Anant P. Godbole

A Universal Cycle for t-multisets of [n]={1,...,n} is a cyclic sequence of $\binom{n+t-1}{t}$ integers from [n] with the property that each t-multiset of [n] appears exactly once consecutively in the sequence. For such a sequence to exist…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Glenn Hurlbert , Tobias Johnson , Joshua Zahl

A universal cycle for a set S of combinatorial objects is a cyclic sequence of length |S|that contains a representation of each element in S exactly once as a substring. If S is the set of k-subsets of [n] = {1, 2, . . . , n}, it is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Colin Campbell , Luke Janik-Jones , Joe Sawada

A universal cycle (u-cycle) for permutations of length $n$ is a cyclic word, any size $n$ window of which is order-isomorphic to exactly one permutation of length $n$, and all permutations of length $n$ are covered. It is known that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Sergey Kitaev , Dun Qiu

A universal cycle is a compact listing of a class of combinatorial objects. In this paper, we prove the existence of universal cycles of classes of labeled graphs, including simple graphs, trees, graphs with m edges, graphs with loops,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-11-02 Greg Brockman , Bill Kay , Emma E. Snively

A universal cycle is a cyclic sequence in which each object of a combinatorial family appears exactly once as a contiguous window. While such cycles are well understood for many discrete structures and linear subspaces, the case of affine…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Ming-Hsuan Kang , Shin-Hsun Chou

It is well known that Universal Cycles of $k$-letter words on an $n$-letter alphabet exist for all $k$ and $n$. In this paper, we prove that Universal Cycles exist for restricted classes of words, including: non-bijections, equitable words…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-04-12 Arielle Leitner , Anant Godbole

Universal cycle for $k$-permutations is a cyclic arrangement in which each $k$-permutation appears exactly once as $k$ consecutive elements. Enumeration problem of universal cycles for $k$-permutations is discussed and one new enumerating…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Zuling Chang , Jie Xue

A universal cycle, or u-cycle, for a given set of words is a circular word that contains each word from the set exactly once as a contiguous subword. The celebrated de Bruijn sequences are a particular case of such a u-cycle, where a set in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Herman Z. Q. Chen , Sergey Kitaev , Brian Y. Sun

A universal partial cycle (or upcycle) for $\mathcal{A}^n$ is a cyclic sequence that covers each word of length $n$ over the alphabet $\mathcal{A}$ exactly once -- like a De Bruijn cycle, except that we also allow a wildcard symbol…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Dylan Fillmore , Bennet Goeckner , Rachel Kirsch , Kirin Martin , Daniel McGinnis

In this paper, we introduce a method of constructing Universal Cycles on sets by taking "sums" and "products" of smaller cycles. We demonstrate this new approach by proving that if there exist Universal Cycles on the 4-subsets of [18] and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-04-25 Yevgeniy Rudoy

Universal Cycles, or U-cycles, as originally defined by de Bruijn, are an efficient method to exhibit a large class of combinatorial objects in a compressed fashion, and with no repeats. de Bruijn's theorem states that U-cycles for $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-03-15 Michelle Champlin , Anant Godbole , Beverly Tomlinson

A universal cycle for permutations is a word of length n! such that each of the n! possible relative orders of n distinct integers occurs as a cyclic interval of the word. We show how to construct such a universal cycle in which only n+1…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-10-31 J. Robert Johnson

Consider the collection of all t-multisets of {1,...,n}. A universal cycle on multisets is a string of numbers, each of which is between 1 and n, such that if these numbers are considered in t-sized windows, every multiset in the collection…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tobias L. Johnson , Joshua Zahl

For an $m$-cycle $C$, an inside $m$-cycle of $C$ is a cycle on the same vertex set, that is edge-disjoint from $C$. In an $m$-cycle system, $(\mathcal{X}, \mathcal{C})$, if inside $m$-cycles can be chosen -one for each cycle- to form…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Selda Küçükçifçi , Charles Curtis Lindner , Sibel Özkan , Emine Şule Yazıcı

This paper initiates the study of shortening universal cycles (u-cycles) and universal words (u-words) for permutations either by using incomparable elements, or by using non-deterministic symbols. The latter approach is similar in nature…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-01 Sergey Kitaev , Vladimir N. Potapov , Vincent Vajnovszki

We discuss results dealing with universal cycles (u-cycles) and $s$-overlap cycles, and contribute to the body of those results by proving existence of universal cycles of naturally labeled posets (NL posets), $s$-overlap cycles of words of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-26 Adam King , Amanda Laubmeier , Kai Orans , Anant Godbole

Universal cycles, such as De Bruijn cycles, are cyclic sequences of symbols that represent every combinatorial object from some family exactly once as a consecutive subsequence. Graph universal cycles are a graph analogue of universal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-14 Rachel Kirsch , Clare Sibley , Elizabeth Sprangel

A connected digraph in which the in-degree of any vertex equals its out-degree is Eulerian; this baseline result is used as the basis of existence proofs for universal cycles (also known as ucycles or generalized deBruijn cycles or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-22 Amelia Cantwell , Juliann Geraci , Anant Godbole , Cristobal Padilla
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