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Erd\"{o}s-Hajnal conjecture states that for every undirected graph $H$ there exists $ \epsilon(H) > 0 $ such that every undirected graph on $ n $ vertices that does not contain $H$ as an induced subgraph contains a clique or a stable set of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Soukaina Zayat , Salman Ghazal

An equivalent directed version of the celebrated unresolved conjecture of Erdos and Hajnal proposed by Alon et al. states that for every tournament H there exists epsilon(H) > 0 such that every H-free n-vertex tournament T contains a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Soukaina Zayat

The celebrated Erd\"{o}s-Hajnal conjecture states that for every undirected graph $H$ there exists $ \epsilon(H) > 0 $ such that every undirected graph on $ n $ vertices that does not contain $H$ as an induced subgraph contains a clique or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-11 Soukaina Zayat , Salman Ghazal

An oriented graph $\vec{H}$ is said to be tournament anti-Sidorenko if the homomorphism density of $\vec{H}$ in any tournament $\vec{T}$ is bounded above by the homomorphism density of $\vec{H}$ in a large uniformly random tournament. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Hao Chen , Felix Christian Clemen , Jonathan A. Noel

A diamond is a $4$-tournament which consists of a vertex dominating or dominated by a $3$-cycle. Assuming the existence of skew-conference matrices, we give a complete characterization of $n$-tournaments with the maximum number of diamonds…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-12 Wiam Belkouche , Abderrahim Boussaïri , Soufiane Lakhlifi , Mohamed Zaidi

Strongly chordal digraphs are included in the class of chordal digraphs and generalize strongly chordal graphs and chordal bipartite graphs. They are the digraphs that admit a linear ordering of its vertex set for which their adjacency…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Pavol Hell , César Hernández-Cruz , Jing Huang

For a $k$-uniform hypergraph $F$ let $\textrm{ex}(n,F)$ be the maximum number of edges of a $k$-uniform $n$-vertex hypergraph $H$ which contains no copy of $F$. Determining or estimating $\textrm{ex}(n,F)$ is a classical and central problem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Christian Reiher , Vojtěch Rödl , Mathias Schacht

Understanding graph density profiles is notoriously challenging. Even for pairs of graphs, complete characterizations are known only in very limited cases, such as edges versus cliques. This paper explores a relaxation of the graph density…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Grigoriy Blekherman , Annie Raymond , Alexander Razborov , Fan Wei

It is well-known that every tournament contains a Hamilton path, and every strongly connected tournament contains a Hamilton cycle. This paper establishes transversal generalizations of these classical results. For a collection…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Debsoumya Chakraborti , Jaehoon Kim , Hyunwoo Lee , Jaehyeon Seo

For an orientation $H$ with $n$ vertices, let $T(H)$ denote the maximum possible number of labeled copies of $H$ in an $n$-vertex tournament. It is easily seen that $T(H) \ge n!/2^{e(H)}$ as the latter is the expected number of such copies…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-25 Raphael Yuster

Let $D=(V,A)$ be a digraph. A subset $S$ of $V$ is called a twin dominating set of $D$ if for every vertex $v\in V-S$, there exists vertices $u_1,u_2 \in S$ such that $(v,u_1)$ and $(u_2,v)$ are arcs in $D$. The minimum cardinality of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Dorota Osula , Rita Zuazua

A dominating set in a directed graph is a set of vertices $S$ such that all the vertices that do not belong to $S$ have an in-neighbour in $S$. A locating set $S$ is a set of vertices such that all the vertices that do not belong to $S$ are…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Thomas Bellitto , Caroline Brosse , Benjamin Lévêque , Aline Parreau

Competitive tournaments appear in sports, politics, population ecology, and animal behavior. All of these fields have developed methods for rating competitors and ranking them accordingly. A tournament is intransitive if it is not…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-04 Alexander Strang , Karen C. Abbott , Peter J. Thomas

The determinant of a tournament $T$ is defined as the determinant of the skew-adjacency matrix of $T$. For a positive odd integer $k$, let $\mathcal{D}_k$ be the set of tournaments whose all subtournaments have determinant at most $k^2$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Jing Zeng , Lihua You , Xinghui Zhao

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

We prove that there exists $C>0$ such that $\epsilon(H) \geq \frac{C}{|H|^{5}\log(|H|)}$, where $\epsilon(H)$ is the Erd\H{o}s-Hajnal coefficient of the tournament $H$, for every prime tournament $H$ for which the celebrated…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-28 Krzysztof Choromanski

A king in a directed graph is a vertex $v$ such that every other vertex is reachable from $v$ via a path of length at most $2$. It is well known that every tournament (a complete graph where each edge has a direction) has at least one king.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Ziad Ismaili Alaoui , Nikhil S. Mande

We characterize the tournaments that are dominance graphs of sets of (unfair) coins in which each coin displays its larger side with greater probability. The class of these tournaments coincides with the class of tournaments whose vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-15 Gábor Hetyei

We define the limiting density of a minor-closed family of simple graphs F to be the smallest number k such that every n-vertex graph in F has at most kn(1+o(1)) edges, and we investigate the set of numbers that can be limiting densities.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-10-18 David Eppstein

Recently, Dragani\'c, Munh\'a Correia, Sudakov and Yuster showed that every tournament on $(2+o(1))k^2$ vertices contains a $1$-subdivision of a transitive tournament on $k$ vertices, which is tight up to a constant factor. We prove a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-22 António Girão , Robert Hancock