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arxiv: 1901.09477 · v2 · pith:UFAS2UQEnew · submitted 2019-01-28 · 🧮 math.DS

Generalized Intransitive Dice: Mimicking an Arbitrary Tournament

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A generalized $N$-sided die is a random variable $D$ on a sample space of $N$ equally likely outcomes taking values in the set of positive integers. We say of independent $N$ sided dice $D_i, D_j$ that $D_i$ beats $D_j$, written $D_i \to D_j$, if $Prob(D_i > D_j) > \frac{1}{2} $. Examples are known of intransitive $6$-sided dice, i.e. $D_1 \to D_2 \to D_3$ but $D_3 \to D_1$. A tournament of size $n$ is a choice of direction $i \to j$ for each edge of the complete graph on $n$ vertices. We show that if $R$ is tournament on the set $\{ 1, \dots, n \}$, then for sufficiently large $N$ there exist sets of independent $N$-sided dice $\{ D_1, \dots, D_n \}$ such that $D_i \to D_j$ if and only if $i \to j$ in $R$.

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