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A universal cycle for a set S of combinatorial objects is a cyclic sequence of length |S|that contains a representation of each element in S exactly once as a substring. If S is the set of k-subsets of [n] = {1, 2, . . . , n}, it is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Colin Campbell , Luke Janik-Jones , Joe Sawada

We present sufficient conditions for when an ordering of universal cycles $\alpha_1, \alpha_2, \ldots, \alpha_m$ for disjoint sets $\mathbf{S}_1, \mathbf{S}_2, \ldots , \mathbf{S}_m$ can be concatenated together to obtain a universal cycle…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-25 Daniel Gabric , Joe Sawada

Universal cycles, such as De Bruijn cycles, are cyclic sequences of symbols that represent every combinatorial object from some family exactly once as a consecutive subsequence. Graph universal cycles are a graph analogue of universal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-14 Rachel Kirsch , Clare Sibley , Elizabeth Sprangel

A universal cycle for a set S of combinatorial objects is a cyclic sequence of length |S| that contains a representative of each element in S exactly once as a substring. Despite the many universal cycle constructions known in the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Daniel Gabric , Wazed Imam , Lukas Janik Jones , Joe Sawada

The focus of this work is to show how to combine Zech's logarithms and each of the cycle joining and cross-join pairing methods to construct binary de Bruijn sequences of any order. A basic implementation is supplied as a proof-of-concept.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Zuling Chang , Martianus Frederic Ezerman , Adamas Aqsa Fahreza , San Ling , Janusz Szmidt , Huaxiong Wang

We present practical algorithms for generating universal cycles uniformly at random. In particular, we consider universal cycles for shorthand permutations, subsets and multiset permutations, weak orders, and orientable sequences.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Joe Sawada , Daniel Gabrić

Trees are useful entities allowing to model data structures and hierarchical relationships in networked decision systems ubiquitously. An ordered tree is a rooted tree where the order of the subtrees (children) of a node is significant. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Victor Parque , Tomoyuki Miyashita

Universal Cycles, or U-cycles, as originally defined by de Bruijn, are an efficient method to exhibit a large class of combinatorial objects in a compressed fashion, and with no repeats. de Bruijn's theorem states that U-cycles for $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-03-15 Michelle Champlin , Anant Godbole , Beverly Tomlinson

The de Bruijn graph, its sequences, and their various generalizations, have found many applications in information theory, including many new ones in the last decade. In this paper, motivated by a coding problem for emerging memory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Yeow Meng Chee , Tuvi Etzion , Han Mao Kiah , Alexander Vardy , Van Khu Vu , Eitan yaakobi

A de Bruijn cycle is a cyclic listing of length A, of a collection of A combinatorial objects, so that each object appears exactly once as a set of consecutive elements in the cycle. In this paper, we show the power of de Bruijn's original…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-04-11 Andre Campbell , Anant Godbole , Bill Kay

This paper initiates the study of shortening universal cycles (u-cycles) and universal words (u-words) for permutations either by using incomparable elements, or by using non-deterministic symbols. The latter approach is similar in nature…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-01 Sergey Kitaev , Vladimir N. Potapov , Vincent Vajnovszki

Universal cycles are generalizations of de Bruijn cycles and Gray codes that were introduced originally by Chung, Diaconis, and Graham in 1990. They have been developed by many authors since, for various combinatorial objects such as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-26 Victoria Horan , Glenn Hurlbert

Universal cycles are generalizations of de Bruijn cycles and Gray codes that were introduced originally by Chung, Diaconis, and Graham in 1992. They have been developed by many authors since, for various combinatorial objects such as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-19 Victoria Horan

A cut-down de Bruijn sequence is a cyclic string of length $L$, where $1 \leq L \leq k^n$, such that every substring of length $n$ appears at most once. Etzion [Theor. Comp. Sci 44 (1986)] gives an algorithm to construct binary cut-down de…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Ben Cameron , Aysu Gündoğan , Joe Sawada

A generalized de Bruijn digraph generalizes a de Bruijn digraph to the case where the number of vertices need not be a pure power of an integer. Hamiltonian cycles in these digraphs thus generalize regular de~Bruijn cycles, and we will thus…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Abbas Alhakim

A de Bruijn sequence of order $k$ over a finite alphabet is a cyclic sequence with the property that it contains every possible $k$-sequence as a substring exactly once. Orthogonal de Bruijn sequences are collections of de Bruijn sequences…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yuan-Pon Chen , Jin Sima , Olgica Milenkovic

A universal partial cycle (or upcycle) for $\mathcal{A}^n$ is a cyclic sequence that covers each word of length $n$ over the alphabet $\mathcal{A}$ exactly once -- like a De Bruijn cycle, except that we also allow a wildcard symbol…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Dylan Fillmore , Bennet Goeckner , Rachel Kirsch , Kirin Martin , Daniel McGinnis

A universal cycle (u-cycle) is a compact listing of a collection of combinatorial objects. In this paper, we use natural encodings of these objects to show the existence of u-cycles for collections of subsets, matroids, restricted…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-08-16 Antonio Blanca , Anant P. Godbole

In this work we present a general and versatile algorithmic framework for exhaustively generating a large variety of different combinatorial objects, based on encoding them as permutations. This approach provides a unified view on many…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Elizabeth Hartung , Hung Phuc Hoang , Torsten Mütze , Aaron Williams

The de Bruijn torus (or grid) problem looks to find an $n$-by-$m$ binary matrix in which every possible $j$-by-$k$ submatrix appears exactly once. The existence and construction of these binary matrices was determined in the 70's, with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Victoria Horan , Brett Stevens
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