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We study the density of fixed strongly connected subtournaments on 5 vertices in large tournaments. We determine the maximum density asymptotically for five tournaments as well as unique extremal sequences for each tournament. As a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-11 Leonardo N. Coregliano , Roberto F. Parente , Cristiane M. Sato

Coloring graphs is an important algorithmic problem in combinatorics with many applications in computer science. In this paper we study coloring tournaments. A chromatic number of a random tournament is of order $\Omega(\frac{n}{\log(n)})$.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-04-07 Krzysztof Choromanski , Tony Jebara

A $k$-tournament $H$ on $n$ vertices is a pair $(V, A)$ for $2\leq k\leq n$, where $V(H)$ is a set of vertices, and $A(H)$ is a set of all possible $k$-tuples of vertices, such that for any $k$-subset $S$ of $V$, $A(H)$ contains exactly one…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-25 Jiangdong Ai , Qiming Dai , Qiwen Guo , Yingqi Hu , Changxin Wang

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

The subdivided double construction on 4-regular graphs was used by Poto\v{c}nik and Wilson to explore semi-symmetric (edge-transitive but not vertex-transitive) graphs, and can be used to construct every semi-symmetric 4-regular graph that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-22 David Eppstein

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

We develop novel methods for constructing nearly Hamilton cycles in sublinear expanders with good regularity properties, as well as new techniques for finding such expanders in general graphs. These methods are of independent interest due…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Shoham Letzter , Abhishek Methuku , Benny Sudakov

A basic result in graph theory says that any $n$-vertex tournament with in- and out-degrees larger than $\frac{n-2}{4}$ contains a Hamilton cycle, and this is tight. In 1990, Bollob\'{a}s and H\"{a}ggkvist significantly extended this by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-09 Nemanja Draganić , David Munhá Correia , Benny Sudakov

In 2019, P. Higgins formulated [1] a question about bipartite graphs (see Conjecture 1 below); this question arises in the study of regular finite semigroups. F. V. Petrov formulated [2] another combinatorial conjecture (Conjecture 3);…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Ilya I. Bogdanov , Fedor Petrov , Anton Sadovnichiy , Fedor Ushakov

We give several results showing that different discrete structures typically gain certain spanning substructures (in particular, Hamilton cycles) after a modest random perturbation. First, we prove that adding linearly many random edges to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-23 Michael Krivelevich , Matthew Kwan , Benny Sudakov

In 1979 Frankl conjectured that in a finite non-trivial union-closed collection of sets there has to be an element that belongs to at least half the sets. We show that this is equivalent to the conjecture that in a finite non-trivial graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-05-17 Henning Bruhn , Pierre Charbit , Oliver Schaudt , Jan Arne Telle

We show that every sufficiently large regular tournament can almost completely be decomposed into edge-disjoint Hamilton cycles. More precisely, for each \eta>0 every regular tournament G of sufficiently large order n contains at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus , Andrew Treglown

Let $F$ and $G$ be simple finite undirected graphs. A graph $G$ is called $F$-irregular if any two of its distinct vertices belong to different numbers of copies of $F$ in $G$. According to the strong conjecture about $F$-irregular graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Tatiana Dovzhenok

The chromatic number of a directed graph is the minimum number of induced acyclic subdigraphs that cover its vertex set, and accordingly, the chromatic number of a tournament is the minimum number of transitive subtournaments that cover its…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Felix Klingelhoefer , Alantha Newman

We prove Tur\'an-type theorems for two related Ramsey problems raised by Bollob\'as and by Fox and Sudakov. First, for $t \ge 3$, we show that any two-colouring of the complete graph on $n$ vertices that is $\delta$-far from being…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-02 António Girão , Bhargav Narayanan

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

A multipartite tournament is an orientation of a complete $c$-partite graph. In [L. Volkmann, A remark on cycles through an arc in strongly connected multipartite tournaments, Appl. Math. Lett. 20 (2007) 1148--1150], Volkmann proved that a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-06-07 Alexandru I. Tomescu

A conjecture of Alon, Pach and Solymosi, which is equivalent to the celebrated Erd\H{o}s-Hajnal Conjecture, states that for every tournament $S$ there exists $\epsilon(S)>0$ such that if $T$ is an $n$-vertex tournament that does not…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Eli Berger , Krzysztof Choromanski , Maria Chudnovsky , Shira Zerbib

Thomason [$\textit{Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.}$ 296.1 (1986)] proved that every sufficiently large tournament contains Hamilton paths and cycles with all possible orientations, except possibly the consistently oriented Hamilton cycle. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-22 Debsoumya Chakraborti , Jaehoon Kim , Hyunwoo Lee , Jaehyeon Seo

A central objective in Ramsey theory is determining whether restricted families of discrete structures necessarily contain substantially larger homogeneous substructures, compared to the unrestricted structures. In the setting of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Asaf Shapira , Raphael Yuster