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The existence and uniqueness of strong kings in tournaments (English)
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13 May 2008
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The purpose of this paper is to show that for a tournament on n players there exist exactly \(k\) strong kings, \(0 < k < n + 1\), with the following exceptions: \(k = n - 1\) when n is odd and \(k = n\) when \(n\) is even, where a king in a tournament is a player who beats any other player directly or indirectly through a third player. The paper also determines completely the uniqueness of tournaments.
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tournament
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king
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strong king
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score sequence
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