A tournament on an arbitrary vertex type $V$: an irreflexive, asymmetric, and complete Boolean edge relation (between distinct vertices exactly one direction holds).
- edge : V → V → Bool
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A permutation $\sigma$ of $\mathrm{Fin}\, n$ encodes a Hamilton path of $T$ if each consecutive directed edge $\sigma(i) \to \sigma(i+1)$ lies in $T$.
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A permutation $\sigma$ encodes a Hamilton cycle of $T$ if every cyclic directed edge $\sigma(i) \to \sigma((i+1) \bmod n)$ lies in $T$.
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Decidability of being a Hamilton path.
Decidability of being a Hamilton cycle.
The finset of all Hamilton-path permutations of $T$.
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The finset of all Hamilton-cycle permutations of $T$.
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Number of Hamilton paths of $T$.
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Number of Hamilton cycles of $T$.
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Extension of a tournament on $\mathrm{Fin}\, n$ to one on $\mathrm{Fin}(n+1)$ by adding a new vertex whose incoming/outgoing edges are dictated by a Boolean function $f$: $f(v) = \mathrm{true}$ means new vertex beats $v$.
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The number of Boolean functions $f : \mathrm{Fin}\, n \to \{\bot, \top\}$ with $f(a) = \top$ and $f(b) = \bot$ is exactly $2^{n-2}$.
For a permutation $\sigma$, the number of orientation functions $f$ making the new vertex compatible with $\sigma$ (i.e. $f(\sigma(0)) = \top$ and $f(\sigma(n-1)) = \bot$) is $2^{n-2}$.
Injection from Hamilton paths compatible with $f$ into Hamilton cycles of the extended tournament: each such path can be closed into a cycle via the new vertex.
Double-counting bound: summing the number of Hamilton cycles of each extension $T[f]$ over all orientation functions $f : \mathrm{Fin}\, n \to \{\bot, \top\}$ gives at least $\mathrm{numHamiltonPaths}(T) \cdot 2^{n-2}$.
Averaging argument (key step in Alon's bound for Hamilton paths): for any tournament $T$ on $n \ge 2$ vertices, there exists a one-vertex extension $T'$ on $n + 1$ vertices with $4 \cdot \mathrm{numHamiltonCycles}(T') \ge \mathrm{numHamiltonPaths}(T)$.