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A non-trivial upper bound on the threshold bias of the Oriented-cycle game

Publikationstyp
Journal Article
Date Issued
2016-05-25
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Clemens, Dennis  orcid-logo
Liebenau, Anita  
Institut
Mathematik E-10  
TORE-URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11420/4493
Journal
Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series B  
Volume
122
Start Page
21
End Page
54
Citation
Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series B (122): 21-54 (2017)
Publisher DOI
10.1016/j.jctb.2016.05.002
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-84969705166
Publisher
Academic Press
In the Oriented-cycle game, introduced by Bollobás and Szabó [7], two players, called OMaker and OBreaker, alternately direct edges of Kn. OMaker directs exactly one previously undirected edge, whereas OBreaker is allowed to direct between one and b previously undirected edges. OMaker wins if the final tournament contains a directed cycle, otherwise OBreaker wins. Bollobás and Szabó [7] conjectured that for a bias as large as n−3 OMaker has a winning strategy if OBreaker must take exactly b edges in each round. It was shown recently by Ben-Eliezer, Krivelevich and Sudakov [6], that OMaker has a winning strategy for this game whenever b<n/2−1. In this paper, we show that OBreaker has a winning strategy whenever b>5n/6+1. Moreover, in case OBreaker is required to direct exactly b edges in each move, we show that OBreaker wins for b⩾19n/20, provided that n is large enough. This refutes the conjecture by Bollobás and Szabó.
Subjects
cycles
digraphs
orientation games
DDC Class
510: Mathematik
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