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Aboulker, Aubian, Charbit, and Lopes (2023) defined the clique number of a tournament to be the minimum clique number of one of its backedge graphs. Here we show that if $T$ is a tournament of sufficiently large clique number, then $T$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Logan Crew , Xinyue Fan , Hidde Koerts , Benjamin Moore , Sophie Spirkl

For a regular tournament $T$ of order $n,$ denote by $c_{8}(T)$ the number of cycles of length $8$ in $T.$ Let $DR_{n}$ be a doubly-regular tournament of order $n\equiv 3\mod4$ (so, the out-sets and in-sets of its vertices are also regular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Sergey Savchenko

Knockout tournaments, also known as single-elimination or cup tournaments, are a popular form of sports competitions. In the standard probabilistic setting, for each pairing of players, one of the players wins the game with a certain (a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Juhi Chaudhary , Hendrik Molter , Meirav Zehavi

A tournament is an oriented complete graph. The problem of ranking tournaments was firstly investigated by P. Erd\H{o}s and J. W. Moon. By probabilistic methods, the existence of "unrankable" tournaments was proved. On the other hand, they…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Shohei Satake

We only consider finite structures. With every totally ordered set $V$ and a subset $P$ of $\binom{V}{2}$, we associate the underlying tournament ${\rm Inv}(\underline{V}, P)$ obtained from the transitive tournament $\underline{V}:=(V,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-08 Houmem Belkhechine , Cherifa Ben Salha , Rim Romdhane

We develop a general theory of cluster categories, applying to a 2-Calabi-Yau extriangulated category $\mathcal{C}$ and cluster-tilting subcategory $\mathcal{T}$ satisfying only mild finiteness conditions. We show that the structure theory…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Jan E. Grabowski , Matthew Pressland

Recent investigations in computational biology have focused on a family of 2-colored digraphs, called 2-colored best match graphs, which naturally arise from rooted phylogenetic trees. Actually the defining properties of such graphs are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Annachiara Korchmaros

Complete digraphs are referred to in the combinatorics literature as tournaments. We consider a family of semi-simplicial complexes, that we refer to as "tournaplexes", whose simplices are tournaments. In particular, given a digraph…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-06 Dejan Govc , Ran Levi , Jason P. Smith

The orientation completion problem for a fixed class of oriented graphs asks whether a given partially oriented graph can be completed to an oriented graph in the class. Orientation completion problems have been studied recently for several…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Kevin Hsu , Jing Huang

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

A class of acyclic digraphs $\mathscr{C}$ is linearly unavoidable if there exists a constant $c$ such that every digraph $D\in \mathscr{C}$ is contained in all tournaments of order $c\cdot |V(D)|$. The class of all acyclic digraphs is not…

In this paper we present a new proof of a proposition presented in the article: Complexes of tournaments, directionality filtrations and persistent homology. This paper is part of Joaqu\'in Casta\~neda's undergraduate thesis.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Joaquín Castañeda , Vinicio Gómez

Decomposing a digraph into subdigraphs with a fixed structure or property is a classical problem in graph theory and a useful tool in a number of applications of networks and communication. A digraph is strongly connected if it contains a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-18 A. P. Figueroa , J. J. Montellano-Ballesteros , M. Olsen

If $T$ is an $n$-vertex tournament with a given number of $3$-cycles, what can be said about the number of its $4$-cycles? The most interesting range of this problem is where $T$ is assumed to have $c\cdot n^3$ cyclic triples for some $c>0$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-24 Nati Linial , Avraham Morgenstern

The dichromatic number $\vec{\chi}(D)$ of a digraph $D=(V,A)$ is the minimum number of sets in a partition $V_1,\ldots{},V_k$ of $V$ into $k$ subsets so that the induced subdigraph $D[V_i]$ is acyclic for each $i\in [k]$. This is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Jørgen Bang-Jensen , Lucas Picasarri-Arrieta , Anders Yeo

A multipartite tournament is an orientation of a complete $k$-partite graph for some positive integer $k\geq 3$. We say that a multipartite tournament $D$ is tight if every partite set forms a clique in the $(1,2)$-step competition graph,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Myungho Choi , Suh-Ryung Kim

Real world tournaments are almost always intransitive. Recent works have noted that parametric models which assume $d$ dimensional node representations can effectively model intransitive tournaments. However, nothing is known about the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Arun Rajkumar , Vishnu Veerathu , Abdul Bakey Mir

A distinguishing $r$-labeling of a digraph $G$ is a mapping $\lambda$ from the set of verticesof $G$ to the set of labels $\{1,\dots,r\}$ such that no nontrivial automorphism of $G$ preserves all the labels.The distinguishing number $D(G)$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Kahina Meslem , Eric Sopena

We prove the following new results. (a) Let $T$ be a regular tournament of order $2n+1\geq 11$ and $S$ a subset of $V(T)$. Suppose that $|S|\leq \frac{1}{2}(n-2)$ and $x$, $y$ are distinct vertices in $V(T)\setminus S$. If the subtournament…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-17 Samvel Kh. Darbinyan , Gregory Z. Gutin

We consider the transformation reversing all arcs of a subset $X$ of the vertex set of a tournament $T$. The \emph{index} of $T$, denoted by $i(T)$, is the smallest number of subsets that must be reversed to make $T$ acyclic. It turns out…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-07-14 Houmem Belkhechine , Moncef Bouaziz , Imed Boudabbous , Maurice Pouzet