Almost all optimally coloured complete graphs contain a rainbow Hamilton path
Combinatorics
2022-04-22 v2
Abstract
A subgraph of an edge-coloured graph is called rainbow if all of the edges of have different colours. In 1989, Andersen conjectured that every proper edge-colouring of admits a rainbow path of length . We show that almost all optimal edge-colourings of admit both (i) a rainbow Hamilton path and (ii) a rainbow cycle using all of the colours. This result demonstrates that Andersen's Conjecture holds for almost all optimal edge-colourings of and answers a recent question of Ferber, Jain, and Sudakov. Our result also has applications to the existence of transversals in random symmetric Latin squares.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2007.00395,
title = {Almost all optimally coloured complete graphs contain a rainbow Hamilton path},
author = {Stephen Gould and Tom Kelly and Daniela Kühn and Deryk Osthus},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.00395},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
30 pages, 5 figures. Final version, to appear in Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B