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A000568 Number of outcomes of unlabeled n-team round-robin tournaments.
(Formerly M1262 N0484)
23

%I M1262 N0484 #108 Dec 08 2023 12:05:33

%S 1,1,1,2,4,12,56,456,6880,191536,9733056,903753248,154108311168,

%T 48542114686912,28401423719122304,31021002160355166848,

%U 63530415842308265100288,244912778438520759443245824,1783398846284777975419600287232,24605641171260376770598003978281472

%N Number of outcomes of unlabeled n-team round-robin tournaments.

%C Harary and Palmer give incorrect values for a(24) and a(25); the correct values are a(24) = 195692027657521876084316842660833482785173437775365039898624 and a(25) = 131326696677895002131450257709457767457170027052967027982788816896. - _Vladeta Jovovic_, Apr 08 2001

%C a(n) appears to be the number of even graphs with n vertices; see comment in A334335. - _Pontus von Brömssen_, May 05 2020 [This has been proved by Royle et al. 2023. - _Pontus von Brömssen_, Apr 06 2022]

%D R. L. Davis, Structure of dominance relations, Bull. Math. Biophys., 16 (1954), 131-140.

%D J. L. Gross and J. Yellen, eds., Handbook of Graph Theory, CRC Press, 2004; p. 157 and 523.

%D F. Harary and E. M. Palmer, Graphical Enumeration, Academic Press, NY, 1973, pp. 126 and 245.

%D J. W. Moon, Topics on Tournaments. Holt, NY, 1968, p. 87.

%D K. B. Reid and L. W. Beineke "Tournaments", pp. 169-204 in L. W. Beineke and R. J. Wilson, editors, Selected Topics in Graph Theory, Academic Press, NY, 1978.

%D N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).

%D N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

%H Keith Briggs, <a href="/A000568/b000568.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..76</a>

%H P. J. Cameron, <a href="http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/journals/JIS/VOL3/groups.html">Sequences realized by oligomorphic permutation groups</a>, J. Integ. Seqs. Vol. 3 (2000), #00.1.5.

%H Cropper, Sebrina Ruth, <a href="http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/gradreports/91">Ranking Score Vectors of Tournaments</a> (2011). All Graduate Reports and Creative Projects. Paper 91. Utah State University, School of Graduate Studies.

%H R. L. Davis, <a href="/A000568/a000568_4.pdf">Structure of dominance relations</a>, Bull. Math. Biophys., 16 (1954), 131-140. [Annotated scanned copy]

%H D. S. Dummit, E. P. Dummit, and H. Kisilevsky, <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.06480">Characterizations of quadratic, cubic, and quartic residue matrices</a>, arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.06480 [math.NT], 2015.

%H Robert A. Laird and Brandon S. Schamp, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1086/696266">Calculating Competitive Intransitivity: Computational Challenges</a>, The American Naturalist (2018), Vol. 191, No. 4, 547-552.

%H Robert A. Laird and Brandon S. Schamp, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12957">Exploring the performance of intransitivity indices in predicting coexistence in multispecies systems</a>, Journal of Ecology (2018) Vol. 106, Issue 3, 815-825.

%H Brendan McKay, <a href="http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/data/digraphs.html">Combinatorial Data</a>.

%H John W. Moon, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42833">Topics on tournaments</a>, Holt, Rinehard and Winston (1968), see page 115.

%H J. W. Moon and M. Goldberg, <a href="http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.dmj/1077378978">On the composition of two tournaments</a>, Duke Mathematical Journal, vol.37, no.2 (1970), pp.323-332. (subscription required)

%H J. W. Moon and M. Goldberg, <a href="/A000568/a000568_2.pdf">On the composition of two tournaments</a>, Duke Mathematical Journal 37.2 (1970): 323-332. [Annotated scans of pages 331 and 332 only]

%H Vladimír Müller, Jaroslav Nešetřil, and Jan Pelant, <a href="/A003505/a003505.pdf">Either tournaments or algebras?</a>, Discrete Math. 11 (1975), 37-66. [Annotated copy] See table 1 on page 65.

%H Gordon F. Royle, Cheryl E. Praeger, S. P. Glasby, Saul D. Freedman, and Alice Devillers, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10801-022-01197-0">Tournaments and even graphs are equinumerous</a>, Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics 57 (2023), 515-524; <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.01947">arXiv version</a>, arXiv:2204.01947 [math.CO], 2022.

%H N. J. A. Sloane, <a href="/A000568/a000568.pdf">Annotated scan of John Moon's tables of tournaments on up to 6 nodes</a>

%H N. J. A. Sloane, <a href="/A000568/a000568_1.pdf">Illustration of first 5 terms</a>

%H N. J. A. Sloane, <a href="/A000568/a000568.txt">A second Maple program for A000568</a>

%H Peter Steinbach, <a href="/A000664/a000664_11.pdf">Field Guide to Simple Graphs, Volume 4</a>, Part 11 (For Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4 of this book see A000088, A008406, A000055, A000664, respectively.)

%H Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Tournament.html">Tournament</a>

%H Raphael Yuster, <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.01910">On tournament inversion</a>, arXiv:2312.01910 [math.CO], 2023.

%H Tianwei Zhang and Stefan Szeider, <a href="https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2023.39">Searching for Smallest Universal Graphs and Tournaments with SAT</a>, 29th Int'l Conf. Princ. Prac. Constraint Programming (CP 2023) Art. No. 39, 39:1-39:20.

%H <a href="/index/To#tournament">Index entries for sequences related to tournaments</a>

%F Davis's formula: a(n) = Sum_{j} (1/(Product (k^(j_k) (j_k)!))) * 2^{t_j},

%F where j runs through all partitions of n into odd parts, say with j_1 parts of size 1, j_3 parts of size 3, etc.,

%F and t_j = (1/2)*[ Sum_{r=1..n, s=1..n} j_r j_s gcd(r,s) - Sum_{r} j_r ].

%p with(combinat):with(numtheory): for n from 1 to 30 do p:=partition(n): s:=0:for k from 1 to nops(p) do ex:=1:for i from 1 to nops(p[k]) do if p[k][i] mod 2=0 then ex:=0:break:fi:od:

%p if ex=1 then q:=convert(p[k],multiset): for i from 1 to n do a(i):=0:od:for i from 1 to nops(q) do a(q[i][1]):=q[i][2]:od:

%p c:=1:ord:=1:for i from 1 to n do c:=c*a(i)!*i^a(i): if a(i)<>0 then ord:=lcm(ord,i):fi:od: g:=0:for d from 1 to ord do if ord mod d=0 then g1:=0:for del from 1 to n do if d mod del=0 then g1:=g1+del*a(del):fi:od:g:=g+phi(ord/d)*g1*(g1-1):fi:od: s:=s+2^(g/ord/2)/c:fi:

%p od: print(n,s); od: # _Vladeta Jovovic_

%t permcount[v_] := Module[{m = 1, s = 0, k = 0, t}, For[i = 1, i <= Length[v], i++, t = v[[i]]; k = If[i > 1 && t == v[[i - 1]], k + 1, 1]; m *= t*k; s += t]; s!/m];

%t edges[v_] := Sum[Sum[GCD[v[[i]], v[[j]]], {j, 1, i-1}], {i, 2, Length[v]}] + Sum[Quotient[v[[i]], 2], {i, 1, Length[v]}];

%t oddp[v_] := (For[i = 1, i <= Length[v], i++, If[BitAnd[v[[i]], 1] == 0, Return[0]]]; 1);

%t a[n_] := a[n] = (s = 0; Do[If[oddp[p] == 1, s += permcount[p]*2^edges[p]], {p, IntegerPartitions[n]}]; s/n!);

%t Table[Print["a(", n, ") = ", a[n]]; a[n], {n, 0, 25}] (* _Jean-François Alcover_, Nov 13 2017, after _Andrew Howroyd_ *)

%o (PARI)

%o permcount(v) = {my(m=1,s=0,k=0,t); for(i=1,#v,t=v[i]; k=if(i>1&&t==v[i-1],k+1,1); m*=t*k;s+=t); s!/m}

%o edges(v) = {sum(i=2, #v, sum(j=1, i-1, gcd(v[i],v[j]))) + sum(i=1, #v, v[i]\2)}

%o oddp(v) = {for(i=1, #v, if(bitand(v[i],1)==0, return(0)));1}

%o a(n) = {my(s=0); forpart(p=n, if(oddp(p), s+=permcount(p)*2^edges(p))); s/n!} \\ _Andrew Howroyd_, Oct 22 2017

%Y Cf. A006125 for the labeled analog, A051337.

%Y Euler transform of A334335.

%K nonn,nice,easy

%O 0,4

%A _N. J. A. Sloane_

%E More terms from _Vladeta Jovovic_

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