Unavoidable trees in tournaments

Richard Mycroft; Tássio Naia Dos Santos

doi:10.1002/rsa.20765

Unavoidable trees in tournaments

Richard Mycroft, Tássio Naia Dos Santos

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An oriented tree T on n vertices is unavoidable if every tournament on n vertices contains a copy of T. In this paper we give a sufficient condition for T to be unavoidable, and use this to prove that almost all labelled oriented trees are unavoidable, verifying a conjecture of Bender and Wormald. We additionally prove that every tournament on n + o(n) vertices contains a copy of every oriented tree T on n vertices with polylogarithmic maximum degree, improving a result of Kühn, Mycroft and Osthus.

Original language	English
Number of pages	29
Journal	Random Structures and Algorithms
Early online date	9 Feb 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/rsa.20765
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 9 Feb 2018

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Checked for Eligibility: 15/01/2018 This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Mycroft R, Naia T. Unavoidable trees in tournaments. Random Struct Alg., which has been published in final form at: https://doi.org/10.1002/rsa.20765. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
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