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Z-cyclic triplewhist tournaments when the number of players involves primes of the form 8u + 5

✍ Scribed by Norman J. Finizio


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1994
Tongue
English
Weight
503 KB
Volume
2
Category
Article
ISSN
1063-8539

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✦ Synopsis


When the number of players, v, in a whist tournament, Wh(v), is = 1 (mod 4) the only instances of a 2-cyclic triplewhist tournament, TWh(v), that appear in the literature are for v = 21,29,37. In this study we present 2-cyclic TWh(v) for all v E T = {v = 8u + 5: v is prime, 3 5 u 5 249). Additionally, we establish (1) for all v E T there exists a 2-cyclic TWh(v") for all n 2 1, and (2) if vi E T , i = 1,. . . , n, there exists a 2-cyclic TWh(v;' . . . v:) for all ei 2 1. It is believed that these are the first instances of infinite classes of 2-cyclic TWh(v), Y f 1 (mod 4).