Generalized Intransitive Dice II: Partition Constructions

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} $\mathrm{.}Acollectionofdice${ D_i : i = 1, \dots, n }$modelsatournamentontheset$[n] = { 1, 2, \dots, n }$, i.e. a complete digraph with $n$ vertices, when $D_i\to D_j$ if and only if $i \to j$inthetournament\mathrm{.}Byusing$n$-foldpartitionsoftheset$[Nn] $ with each set of size $N$ we can model an arbitrary tournament on $[n]$. A bound on the required size of $N$ is obtained by examples with $N=3^{n-2}$.