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A tournament is an orientation of a complete graph. We say that a vertex $x$ in a tournament $\vec T$ controls another vertex $y$ if there exists a directed path of length at most two from $x$ to $y$. A vertex is called a king if it…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Oded Lachish , Felix Reidl , Chhaya Trehan

Single-elimination (SE) tournaments are a popular format used in competitive environments and decision making. Algorithms for SE tournament manipulation have been an active topic of research in recent years. In this paper, we initiate the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Sushmita Gupta , M. S. Ramanujan , Peter Strulo

We present a new problem called the incomplete Traveling Tournament problem, which introduces the well known Traveling Tournament Problem into the realm of incomplete round-robin tournaments. We focus on the case where teams can face each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Karel Devriesere , David Van Bulck , Dries Goossens

Modular Decomposition focuses on repeatedly identifying a module M (a collection of vertices that shares exactly the same neighbourhood outside of M) and collapsing it into a single vertex. This notion of exactitude of neighbourhood is very…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Michel Habib , Lalla Mouatadid , Eric Sopena , Mengchuan Zou

Given a tournament $T$, the problem MaxCT consists of finding a maximum (arc-disjoint) cycle packing of $T$. In the same way, MaxTT corresponds to the specific case where the collection of cycles are triangles (i.e. directed 3-cycles).…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Stéphane Bessy , Marin Bougeret , Jocelyn Thiebaut

A vertex $x$ in a tournament $T$ is called a king if for every vertex $y$ of $T$ there is a directed path from $x$ to $y$ of length at most 2. It is not hard to show that every vertex of maximum out-degree in a tournament is a king.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Gregory Gutin , George B. Mertzios , Felix Reidl

Let $\mathcal{M}$ be a separable von Neumann algebra with center $\mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{M})$. An operator $T$ in $\mathcal{M}$ is called irreducible if the von Neumann algebra $W^*(T)$ generated by $T$ has trivial relative commutant, i.e.,…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Sukitha Adappa , Minghui Ma , Junhao Shen , Rui Shi , Shanshan Yang

We consider in this paper the family of triples $(V, T, U),$ where $ V$ is a finite dimensional space, $T $ is a nilpotent linear operator on $V$ and $U $ is an invariant subspace of $T$. Denote $[U]= ker(T_{|U})$, and $n_U= dim([U] )$. Our…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-25 Ahmed El Khantach , El Hassan Zerouali

The converse of a tournament is obtained by reversing all arcs. If a tournament is isomorphic to its converse, it is called self--converse. Eplett provided a necessary and sufficient condition for a sequence of integers to be realisable as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-08 Erik Thörnblad

K\"uhn and Osthus conjectured in 2013 that regular tripartite tournaments are decomposable into Hamilton cycles. Somewhat surprisingly, Granet gave a simple counterexample to this conjecture almost 10 years later. In this paper, we show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Francesco Di Braccio , Joanna Lada , Viresh Patel , Yani Pehova , Jozef Skokan

A tournament on 8 or more vertices may be intrinsically linked as a directed graph. We begin the classification of intrinsically linked tournaments by examining their score sequences. While many distinct tournaments may have the same score…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-22 Thomas Fleming , Joel Foisy

A celebrated unresolved conjecture of Erd\H{o}s and Hajnal 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…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-21 Eli Berger , Krzysztof Choromanski , Maria Chudnovsky

For a finite tensor category $\mathcal C$ and a Hopf monad $T:\mathcal C\to \mathcal C$ satisfying certain conditions we describe exact indecomposable left $\mathcal C^T$-module categories in terms of left $\mathcal C$-module categories and…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2014-06-02 Martín Mombelli , Sonia Natale

We study a high-dimensional analog for the notion of an acyclic (aka transitive) tournament. We give upper and lower bounds on the number of $d$-dimensional $n$-vertex acyclic tournaments. In addition, we prove that every $n$-vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-06 Nati Linial , Avraham Morgenstern

Motivated by known results for finite tournaments, we define and study the score functions of tournament kernels and the degree distributions of tournament limits. Our main theorem completely characterises those distributions that appear as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-30 Erik Thörnblad

Let $\mathcal{S}$ be a commutative semigroup, and let $T$ be a sequence of terms from the semigroup $\mathcal{S}$. We call $T$ an (additively) {\sl irreducible} sequence provided that no sum of its some terms vanishes. Given any element $a$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-25 Guoqing Wang

The Erd\H{o}s-Hajnal conjecture states that for every given undirected graph $H$ there exists a constant $c(H)>0$ such that every graph $G$ that does not contain $H$ as an induced subgraph contains a clique or a stable set of size at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-28 Krzysztof Choromanski

The R\'{e}nyi $\alpha$-entropy $H_{\alpha}$ of complete antisymmetric directed graphs (i.e., tournaments) is explored. We optimize $H_{\alpha}$ when $\alpha = 2$ and $3$, and find that as $\alpha$ increases $H_{\alpha}$'s sensitivity to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-04 David E. Brown , Eric Culver , Bryce Frederickson , Sidney Tate , Brent J. Thomas

Maximality of a contractive tuple of operators is considered. Characterization of a contractive tuple to be maximal is obtained. Notion of maximality of a submodule of Drury-Arveson module on the $d$-dimensional unit ball $\mathbb{B}_d$ is…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-05 B. Krishna Das , Jaydeb Sarkar , Santanu Sarkar

We propose necessary and sufficient conditions for an integer matrix to be decomposable in terms of its Hermite normal form. Specifically, to each integer matrix of maximal row rank without columns of zeros, we associate a symmetric whole…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Carlos Marijuán , Ignacio Ojeda , Alberto Vigneron-Tenorio