Score lists in multipartite hypertournaments

Given non-negative integers $n_{i}$ and $\alpha_{i}$ with $0 \leq \alpha_{i} \leq n_i$ $(i=1,2,...,k)$, an $[\alpha_{1},\alpha_{2},...,\alpha_{k}]$-$k$-partite hypertournament on $\sum_{1}^{k}n_{i}$ vertices is a $(k+1)$-tuple $(U_{1},U_{2},...,U_{k},E)$, where $U_{i}$ are $k$ vertex sets with $|U_{i}|=n_{i}$, and $E$ is a set of $\sum_{1}^{k}\alpha_{i}$-tuples of vertices, called arcs, with exactly $\alpha_{i}$ vertices from $U_{i}$, such that any $\sum_{1}^{k}\alpha_{i}$ subset $\cup_{1}^{k}U_{i}^{\prime}$ of $\cup_{1}^{k}U_{i}$, $E$ contains exactly one of the $(\sum_{1}^{k} \alpha_{i})!$ $\sum_{1}^{k}\alpha_{i}$-tuples whose entries belong to $\cup_{1}^{k}U_{i}^{\prime}$. We obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for $k$ lists of non-negative integers in non-decreasing order to be the losing score lists and to be the score lists of some $k$-partite hypertournament

On Scores, Losing Scores and Total Scores in Hypertournaments

A $k$-hypertournament is a complete $k$-hypergraph with each $k$-edge endowed with an orientation, that is, a linear arrangement of the vertices contained in the edge. In a $k$-hypertournament, the score $s_{i}$ (losing score $r_{i}$) of a vertex $v_{i}$ is the number of arcs containing $v_{i}$ in which $v_{i}$ is not the last element (in which $v_{i}$ is the last element). The total score of $v_{i}$ is defined as $t_{i}=s_{i}-r_{i}$. In this paper we obtain stronger inequalities for the quantities $\sum_{i\in I}r_{i}$, $\sum_{i\in I}s_{i}$ and $\sum_{i\in I}t_{i}$, where $I\subseteq \{ 1,2,\ldots,n\}$. Furthermore, we discuss the case of equality for these inequalities. We also characterize total score sequences of strong $k$-hypertournaments

Deciding football sequences

An open problem posed by the first author is the complexity to decide whether a sequence of nonnegative integer numbers can be the final score of a football tournament. In this paper we propose polynomial time approximate and exponential time exact algorithms which solve the problem