Bounds and constructions for n-e.c. tournaments

نویسندگان

  • Anthony Bonato
  • Przemyslaw Gordinowicz
  • Pawel Pralat
چکیده

Few families of tournaments satisfying the n-e.c. adjacency property are known. We supply a new random construction for generating infinite families of vertex-transitive n-e.c. tournaments by considering circulant tournaments. Switching is used to generate new ne.c. tournaments of certain orders. With aid of a computer search, we demonstrate that there is a unique minimum order 3-e.c. tournament of order 19, and there are no 3-e.c. tournaments of orders 20, 21, and 22. We show that there are no 4-e.c. tournaments of orders 47 and 48 improving the lower bound for the minimum order of such a tournament.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Contributions to Discrete Mathematics

دوره 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2010