Walecki tournaments with an arc that lies in a unique directed triangle

Fuente: arXiv
Salvato in:
Dettagli Bibliografici
Autore principale: Morris, Joy
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2024
Soggetti:
Accesso online:
Tags: Aggiungi Tag
Nessun Tag, puoi essere il primo ad aggiungerne!!
_version_ 1866911945362243584
author Morris, Joy
author_facet Morris, Joy
contents A Walecki tournament is any tournament that can be formed by choosing an orientation for each of the Hamilton cycles in the Walecki decomposition of a complete graph on an odd number of vertices. In this paper, we show that if some arc in a Walecki tournament on at least $7$ vertices lies in exactly one directed triangle, then there is a vertex of the tournament (the vertex typically labelled $*$ in the decomposition) that is fixed under every automorphism of the tournament. Furthermore, any isomorphism between such Walecki tournaments maps the vertex labelled $*$ in one to the vertex labelled $*$ in the other. We also show that among Walecki tournaments with a signature of even length $2k$, of the $2^{2k}$ possible signatures, at least $2^k$ produce tournaments that have an arc that lies in a unique directed triangle (and therefore to which our result applies).
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2407_03807
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Walecki tournaments with an arc that lies in a unique directed triangle
Morris, Joy
Combinatorics
05C20, 05C38, 05C45, 05C60
A Walecki tournament is any tournament that can be formed by choosing an orientation for each of the Hamilton cycles in the Walecki decomposition of a complete graph on an odd number of vertices. In this paper, we show that if some arc in a Walecki tournament on at least $7$ vertices lies in exactly one directed triangle, then there is a vertex of the tournament (the vertex typically labelled $*$ in the decomposition) that is fixed under every automorphism of the tournament. Furthermore, any isomorphism between such Walecki tournaments maps the vertex labelled $*$ in one to the vertex labelled $*$ in the other. We also show that among Walecki tournaments with a signature of even length $2k$, of the $2^{2k}$ possible signatures, at least $2^k$ produce tournaments that have an arc that lies in a unique directed triangle (and therefore to which our result applies).
title Walecki tournaments with an arc that lies in a unique directed triangle
topic Combinatorics
05C20, 05C38, 05C45, 05C60
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03807