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Sumner's universal tournament conjecture states that every $(2n-2)$-vertex tournament should contain a copy of every $n$-vertex oriented tree. If we know the number of leaves of an oriented tree, or its maximum degree, can we guarantee a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Alistair Benford , Richard Montgomery

We provide a new geometric interpretation of the multidegrees of the (iterated) Kapranov embedding $\Phi_n:\overline{M}_{0,n+3}\hookrightarrow \mathbb{P}^1\times \mathbb{P}^2\times \cdots \times \mathbb{P}^n$, where $\overline{M}_{0,n+3}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Maria Gillespie , Sean T. Griffin , Jake Levinson

Continuing the program begun in the first paper of this series, we present a pair of non-reconstructable tournament on $p$ vertices for each $p=2^n \ge 4$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-13 Paul K. Stockmeyer

In some domestic professional sports leagues, the home stadiums are located in cities connected by a common train line running in one direction. For these instances, we can incorporate this geographical information to determine optimal or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Richard Hoshino , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi

The Traveling Tournament Problem (TTP) is a hard but interesting sports scheduling problem inspired by Major League Baseball, which is to design a double round-robin schedule such that each pair of teams plays one game in each other's home…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Jingyang Zhao , Mingyu Xiao

We study variants of Sidorenko's conjecture in tournaments, where new phenomena arise that do not have clear analogues in the setting of undirected graphs. We first consider oriented graphs that are systematically under-represented in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Jacob Fox , Zoe Himwich , Nitya Mani , Yunkun Zhou

A tournament $H$ is said to force quasirandomness if it has the property that a sequence $(T_n)_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ of tournaments of increasing orders is quasirandom if and only if the homomorphism density of $H$ in $T_n$ tends to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-30 Jonathan A. Noel , Arjun Ranganathan , Lina M. Simbaqueba

We determine the inducibility of all tournaments with at most $4$ vertices together with the extremal constructions. The $4$-vertex tournament containing an oriented $C_3$ and one source vertex has a particularly interesting extremal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-22 Dalton Burke , Bernard Lidický , Florian Pfender , Michael Phillips

In the well-studied metric distortion problem in social choice, we have voters and candidates located in a shared metric space, and the objective is to design a voting rule that selects a candidate with minimal total distance to the voters.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Moses Charikar , Prasanna Ramakrishnan , Zihan Tan , Kangning Wang

The present work consists of a numerical study of the dynamics of irrational polygonal billiards. Our contribution reinforces the hypothesis that these systems could be Strongly Mixing, although never demonstrably chaotic, and discuss the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-31 R. B. do Carmo , T. Araújo Lima

We consider a random knockout tournament among players $1, \ldots, n$, in which each match involves two players. The match format is specified by the number of matches played in each round, where the constitution of the matches in a round…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-12-15 Ilan Adler , Yang Cao , Richard Karp , Erol Pekoz , Sheldon M. Ross

In this thesis we prove a variety of theorems on tournaments. A \emph{prime} tournament is a tournament $G$ such that there is no $X \subseteq V(G)$, $1 < |X| < |V(G)|$, such that for every vertex $v \in V(G) \minus X$, either $v \ra x$ for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-07-03 Gaku Liu

In 1981, Bermond and Thomassen conjectured that for any positive integer $k$, every digraph with minimum out-degree at least $2k-1$ admits $k$ vertex-disjoint directed cycles. In this short paper, we verify the Bermond-Thomassen conjecture…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-23 Gregory Gutin , Wei Li , Shujing Wang , Anders Yeo , Yacong Zhou

For a positive integer $m$, a finite group $G$ is said to admit a tournament $m$-semiregular representation (TmSR for short) if there exists a tournament $\Gamma$ such that the automorphism group of $\Gamma$ is isomorphic to $G$ and acts…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Dein Wong , Songnian Xu , Chi Zhang , Jinxing Zhao

We present a complete set of rewrite rules for n-qutrit Clifford circuits where n is any non-negative integer. This is the first completeness result for any fragment of quantum circuits in odd prime dimensions. We first generalize…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Sarah Meng Li , Michele Mosca , Neil J. Ross , John van de Wetering , Yuming Zhao

Both Cuckler and Yuster independently conjectured that when $n$ is an odd positive multiple of $3$ every regular tournament on $n$ vertices contains a collection of $n/3$ vertex-disjoint copies of the cyclic triangle. Soon after, Keevash…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-20 Lina Li , Theodore Molla

We revisit the well-studied problem of designing fair and manipulation-resistant tournament rules. In this problem, we seek a mechanism that (probabilistically) identifies the winner of a tournament after observing round-robin play among…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-08 David Pennock , Daniel Schoepflin , Kangning Wang

An $n$-tournament $T$ with vertex set $V$ is simple if there is no subset $M$ of $V$ such that $2\leq \left \vert M\right \vert \leq n-1$ and for every $x\in V\setminus M$, either $M\rightarrow x$ or $x \rightarrow M$. The simplicity index…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Abderrahim Boussaïri , Soufiane Lakhlifi , Imane Talbaoui

We prove that a tournament with $n$ vertices has more than $0.13n^2(1+o(1))$ edge-disjoint transitive triples. We also prove some results on the existence of large packings of $k$-vertex transitive tournaments in an $n$-vertex tournament.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Raphael Yuster

We show that if $D$ is a tournament of arbitrary size then $D$ has finite strong components after reversing a locally finite sequence of cycles. In turn, we prove that any tournament can be covered by two acyclic sets after reversing a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-09 Paul Ellis , Daniel T. Soukup