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Achromatic arboricity on complete graphs

Combinatorics 2021-03-24 v1

Abstract

In this paper we study the {\it {achromatic arboricity}} of the complete graph. This parameter arises from the arboricity of a graph as the achromatic index arises from the chromatic index. The achromatic arboricity of a graph GG, denoted by Aα(G)A_{\alpha}(G), is the maximum number of colors that can be used to color the edges of GG such that every color class induces a forest but any two color classes contain a cycle. In particular, if GG is a complete graph we prove that 14n32Θ(n)Aα(G)12n32Θ(n).\frac{1}{4}n^{\frac{3}{2}}-\Theta(n) \leq A_{\alpha}(G)\leq \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}n^{\frac{3}{2}}-\Theta(n).

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@article{arxiv.2103.12225,
  title  = {Achromatic arboricity on complete graphs},
  author = {Gabriela Araujo-Pardo and Christian Rubio-Montiel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.12225},
  year   = {2021}
}

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10 pages, 3 figures

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