Transversal cycles and paths in tournaments

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Hauptverfasser: Chakraborti, Debsoumya, Kim, Jaehoon, Lee, Hyunwoo, Seo, Jaehyeon
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author Chakraborti, Debsoumya
Kim, Jaehoon
Lee, Hyunwoo
Seo, Jaehyeon
author_facet Chakraborti, Debsoumya
Kim, Jaehoon
Lee, Hyunwoo
Seo, Jaehyeon
contents 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 paper establishes $\textit{transversal}$ generalizations of these classical results. For a collection $\mathbf{T}=\{T_1,\dots,T_m\}$ of not-necessarily distinct tournaments on the common vertex set $V$, an $m$-edge directed subgraph $\mathcal{D}$ with the vertices in $V$ is called a transversal if there exists an bijection $φ\colon E(\mathcal{D})\to [m]$ such that $e\in E(T_{φ(e)})$ for all $e\in E(\mathcal{D})$. We prove that for sufficiently large $n$, there exist transversal Hamilton cycles of all possible orientations possibly except the consistently oriented one. We also obtain a similar result for the transversal Hamilton paths of all possible orientations. These results generalize the classical theorem of Thomason, and our approach provides another proof of this theorem.
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Chakraborti, Debsoumya
Kim, Jaehoon
Lee, Hyunwoo
Seo, Jaehyeon
Combinatorics
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 paper establishes $\textit{transversal}$ generalizations of these classical results. For a collection $\mathbf{T}=\{T_1,\dots,T_m\}$ of not-necessarily distinct tournaments on the common vertex set $V$, an $m$-edge directed subgraph $\mathcal{D}$ with the vertices in $V$ is called a transversal if there exists an bijection $φ\colon E(\mathcal{D})\to [m]$ such that $e\in E(T_{φ(e)})$ for all $e\in E(\mathcal{D})$. We prove that for sufficiently large $n$, there exist transversal Hamilton cycles of all possible orientations possibly except the consistently oriented one. We also obtain a similar result for the transversal Hamilton paths of all possible orientations. These results generalize the classical theorem of Thomason, and our approach provides another proof of this theorem.
title Transversal cycles and paths in tournaments
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.14300