Quadrangularity and strong quadrangularity in tournaments

نویسندگان

  • J. Richard Lundgren
  • K. Brooks Reid
  • Simone Severini
  • Dustin J. Stewart
چکیده

The pattern of a matrix M is a (0, 1)-matrix which replaces all non-zero entries of M with a 1. A directed graph is said to support M if its adjacency matrix is the pattern of M . If M is an orthogonal matrix, then a digraph which supports M must satisfy a condition known as quadrangularity. We look at quadrangularity in tournaments and determine for which orders quadrangular tournaments exist. We also look at a more restrictive necessary condition for a digraph to support an orthogonal matrix, and give a construction for tournaments which meet this condition.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Australasian J. Combinatorics

دوره 34  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2006