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Almost all optimally coloured complete graphs contain a rainbow Hamilton path

Combinatorics 2022-04-22 v2

Abstract

A subgraph HH of an edge-coloured graph is called rainbow if all of the edges of HH have different colours. In 1989, Andersen conjectured that every proper edge-colouring of KnK_{n} admits a rainbow path of length n2n-2. We show that almost all optimal edge-colourings of KnK_{n} 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 KnK_{n} 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.

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@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

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