Let s(n) be the threshold for which each directed path of order smaller than s ( n ) is extendible from one of its endpoints in some tournament T,. It is shown that s(n) is asymptotic to 3n/4, with an error term at most 3 for infinitely many n. There are six tournaments with s ( n ) = n.
Parity of paths and circuits in tournaments
β Scribed by Rodney Forcade
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1973
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 393 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0012-365X
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