Kelly’s conjecture asks whether every regular tournament admits a Hamilton cycle decomposition. Motivated by its symmetry-preserving extension, we study cyclic Hamilton decompositions of carousel tournaments. For an odd integer , let be the carousel tournament. We ask whether has a Hamilton decomposition invariant under translation by . Although the answer is immediate when is prime, composite orders introduce a genuine obstruction: nonunit differences generate short cycles rather than Hamilton cycles. We resolve a general composite-order family by proving that, whenever for primes , the tournament admits a cyclic Hamilton cycle decomposition. The proof combines Hamiltonian difference sequences over prime fields with a matching argument that constructs two base paths with disjoint difference sets in . Thus our result gives an infinite family supporting the cyclic, symmetry-preserving extension of the Hamilton decomposition problem for regular tournaments.

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