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Simple one-point extensions of tournaments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

P. Erdős
Affiliation:
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.
A. Hajnal
Affiliation:
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.
E. C. Milner
Affiliation:
University of Calgary, Alberta.
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A tournament is a relational structure on the non-empty set T such that for x, yT exactly one of the three relations

holds. Here xy expresses the fact that {x, y} ∈ → and we sometimes write this in the alternative form yx. Extending the notation to subsets of T we write AB or BA if ab holds for all pairs a, b with aA and bB. is a subtournament of , and is an extension of , if T′ ⊂ T and →′ is the restriction of → to T′; we will usually write 〈′, → 〉 instead of 〈 ′, → ′〉. In particular, if |T − T′| = k, we call a k-poinf extension of .

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Copyright © University College London 1972

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