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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 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

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

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

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 generalized deBruijn cycles or U-cycles) of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-21 KB Gardner , Anant Godbole

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

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 deBruijn cycles or $U$-cycles) of several…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-04-12 Britni LaBounty-Lay , Ashley Bechel , Anant P. Godbole

Universal cycles are generalizations of de Bruijn cycles and Gray codes that were introduced originally by Chung, Diaconis, and Graham in 1992. They have been developed by many authors since, for various combinatorial objects such as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-19 Victoria Horan

A de Bruijn cycle is a cyclic listing of length A, of a collection of A combinatorial objects, so that each object appears exactly once as a set of consecutive elements in the cycle. In this paper, we show the power of de Bruijn's original…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-04-11 Andre Campbell , Anant Godbole , Bill Kay

We introduce the notion of unavoidable (complete) sets of word patterns, which is a refinement for that of words, and study certain numerical characteristics for unavoidable sets of patterns. In some cases we employ the graph of pattern…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Burstein , Sergey Kitaev

A De Bruijn cycle is a cyclic sequence in which every word of length $n$ over an alphabet $\mathcal{A}$ appears exactly once. De Bruijn tori are a two-dimensional analogue. Motivated by recent progress on universal partial cycles and words,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-02 William D. Carey , Matthew David Kearney , Rachel Kirsch , Stefan Popescu

Universal cycles are generalizations of de Bruijn cycles and Gray codes that were introduced originally by Chung, Diaconis, and Graham in 1990. They have been developed by many authors since, for various combinatorial objects such as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-26 Victoria Horan , Glenn Hurlbert

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

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 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

A universal cycle for a set S of combinatorial objects is a cyclic sequence of length |S| that contains a representative of each element in S exactly once as a substring. Despite the many universal cycle constructions known in the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Daniel Gabric , Wazed Imam , Lukas Janik Jones , Joe Sawada

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 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

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
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