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On the unavoidability of oriented trees

Discrete Mathematics 2018-12-14 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

A digraph is {\it nn-unavoidable} if it is contained in every tournament of order nn. We first prove that every arborescence of order nn with kk leaves is (n+k1)(n+k-1)-unavoidable. We then prove that every oriented tree of order nn (n2n\geq 2) with kk leaves is (32n+32k2)(\frac{3}{2}n+\frac{3}{2}k -2)-unavoidable and (92n52k92)(\frac{9}{2}n -\frac{5}{2}k -\frac{9}{2})-unavoidable, and thus (218n4716)(\frac{21}{8} n- \frac{47}{16})-unavoidable. Finally, we prove that every oriented tree of order nn with kk leaves is (n+144k2280k+124)(n+ 144k^2 - 280k + 124)-unavoidable.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1812.05167,
  title  = {On the unavoidability of oriented trees},
  author = {François Dross and Frédéric Havet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.05167},
  year   = {2018}
}
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