The infinite critical tournaments conjecture

A tournament TT is kk-clique-critical if ω(T)=k\operatorname{\overrightarrow{\omega}}(T)=k and ω(Tv)=k1\operatorname{\overrightarrow{\omega}}(T-v)=k-1 for every vV(T)v\in V(T). The infinite critical tournaments conjecture. For every integer k3k\geq 3, there is an infinite number of kk-clique-critical tournaments. The paper explains that this conjecture is tied to the stronger cluster question: if true it would refute that question, while if false it would support it; the conjecture itself remains open.

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Pierre Aboulker, Guillaume Aubian, Pierre Charbit and Raul Lopes, “Clique number of tournaments”, arXiv:2310.04265 (2026).

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