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In this paper, we prove a fine condensation theorem. This is quite similar to condensation theorems for pure extender mice in the literature, except that condensation for iteration strategies has been added to the mix.

Logic · Mathematics 2023-08-25 John Steel , Nam Trang

In this paper we introduce a path complex that can be regarded as a generalization of the notion of a simplicial complex. The main motivation for considering path complexes comes from directed graphs(digraphs). We obtain a new notion of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-05-14 Alexander Grigor'yan , Yong Lin , Yuri Muranov , Shing-Tung Yau

The paper presents an enriched categorical account of homological perturbation theory, including the formulation, proof and functoriality properties of the homological perturbation lemma.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Lukáš Vokřínek

Persistent homology enables fast and computable comparison of topological objects. However, it is naturally limited to the analysis of topological spaces. We extend the theory of persistence, by guaranteeing robustness and computability to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-16 Mattia G. Bergomi , Massimo Ferri , Pietro Vertechi , Lorenzo Zuffi

We present an improved incremental selection algorithm of the selection algorithm presented in [1] and prove all the selected conjectures.

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Jovial Cheukam Ngouonou , Ramiz Gindullin , Claude-Guy Quimper , Nicolas Beldiceanu , Remi Douence

Sumner's universal tournament conjecture states that any tournament on $2n-2$ vertices contains any directed tree on $n$ vertices. In this paper we prove that this conjecture holds for all sufficiently large $n$. The proof makes extensive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-15 Daniela Kühn , Richard Mycroft , Deryk Osthus

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

We consider sequences of absolute and relative homology and cohomology groups that arise naturally for a filtered cell complex. We establish algebraic relationships between their persistence modules, and show that they contain equivalent…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Vin de Silva , Dmitriy Morozov , Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson

In 2011, Rideau and Winskel introduced concurrent games and strategies as event structures, generalizing prior work on causal formulations of games. In this paper we give a detailed, self-contained and slightly-updated account of the…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Simon Castellan , Pierre Clairambault , Silvain Rideau , Glynn Winskel

As a directed analog of Sidorenko's conjecture in extremal graph theory, Fox, Himwich, Zhou, and the second author defined an oriented graph $H$ to be tournament Sidorenko (anti-Sidorenko) if the random tournament asymptotically minimizes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Xiaoyu He , Nitya Mani , Jiaxi Nie , Nathan Tung , Fan Wei

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

This thesis will be discussing scoring play combinatorial games and looking at the general structure of these games under different operators. I will also be looking at the Sprague-Grundy values for scoring play impartial games, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-22 Fraser Stewart

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

This is the final version of the 2007 preprint titled "On the derived category of 1-motives, I". It has been substantially expanded to contain a motivic proof of (two thirds of) Deligne's conjecture on 1-motives with rational coefficients,…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-14 Luca Barbieri-Viale , Bruno Kahn

We investigate multi-round team competitions between two teams, where each team selects one of its players simultaneously in each round and each player can play at most once. The competition defines an extensive-form game with perfect…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Kai Jin , Pingzhong Tang , Shiteng Chen

Several conjectural continued fractions found with the help of various algorithms are published in this paper.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-04-14 Thomas Baruchel

Let $D$ be a $k$-regular bipartite tournament on $n$ vertices. We show that, for every $p$ with $2 \le p \le n/2-2$, $D$ has a cycle $C$ of length $2p$ such that $D \setminus C$ is hamiltonian unless $D$ is isomorphic to the special digraph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-10 Stéphane Bessy , Jocelyn Thiebaut

In this article, we consider some simple combinatorial game and a winning strategy in this game. This game is then used to prove several known results about non-repetitive sequences and approximations with denominators from a lacunary…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Matthieu Rosenfeld , Alexander Shen

A digraph $D$ is called \emph{path extendable} if for every nonhamiltonian (directed) path $P$ in $D$, there exists another path $P^\prime$ with the same initial and terminal vertices as $P$, and $V(P^\prime) = V (P)\cup \{w\}$ for a vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-01 Zan-Bo Zhang , Weihua He , Hajo Broersma , Xiaoyan Zhang

We consider the Erd\H{o}s-P\'osa property for immersions and topological minors in tournaments. We prove that for every simple digraph $H$, $k\in \mathbb{N}$, and tournament $T$, the following statements hold: (i) If in $T$ one cannot find…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Łukasz Bożyk , Michał Pilipczuk