Near universal cycles for subsets exist

dc.creatorCurtis, Dawn
dc.creatorHines, Taylor
dc.creatorHurlbert, Glenn
dc.creatorMoyer, Tatiana
dc.date2008-09-22
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:04:26Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T10:04:26Z
dc.descriptionLet S be a cyclic n-ary sequence. We say that S is a {\it universal cycle} ((n,k)-Ucycle) for k-subsets of [n] if every such subset appears exactly once contiguously in S, and is a Ucycle packing if every such subset appears at most once. Few examples of Ucycles are known to exist, so the relaxation to packings merits investigation. A family {S_n} of (n,k)-Ucycle packings for fixed k is a near-Ucycle if the length of S_n is $(1-o(1))\binom{n}{k}$. In this paper we prove that near-(n,k)-Ucycles exist for all k.
dc.description14 pages, 3 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0809.3725
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0809.3725
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/169676
dc.subjectCombinatorics
dc.subject05B30 (Primary) 05A05, 05C45 (Secondary)
dc.titleNear universal cycles for subsets exist
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