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We discuss results dealing with universal cycles (ucycles) and s-overlap cycles, and contribute to the body of those results by proving existence of universal cycles of naturally labeled posets (NL posets), s-overlap cycles of words of weight k, and juggling patterns. The result on posets is, to the best of our knowledge, the first demonstration of the existence of a ucycle whose length is unknown.
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The research of all four authors was supported by NSF Grant 1263009.
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King, A., Laubmeier, A., Orans, K. et al. Universal and Overlap Cycles for Posets, Words, and Juggling Patterns. Graphs and Combinatorics 32, 1013–1025 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00373-015-1632-4
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