Decompositions of edge-colored infinite complete graphs into monochromatic paths
Abstract
An -edge coloring of a graph or hypergraph is a map . Extending results of Rado and answering questions of Rado, Gy\'arf\'as and S\'ark\"ozy we prove that (1.) the vertex set of every -edge colored countably infinite complete -uniform hypergraph can be partitioned into monochromatic tight paths with distinct colors (a tight path in a -uniform hypergraph is a sequence of distinct vertices such that every set of consecutive vertices forms an edge), (2.) for all natural numbers and there is a natural number such that the vertex set of every -edge colored countably infinite complete graph can be partitioned into monochromatic powers of paths apart from a finite set (a power of a path is a sequence of distinct vertices such that implies that is an edge), (3.) the vertex set of every -edge colored countably infinite complete graph can be partitioned into monochromatic squares of paths, but not necessarily into , (4.) the vertex set of every -edge colored complete graph on can be partitioned into monochromatic paths with distinct colors.
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@article{arxiv.1502.04955,
title = {Decompositions of edge-colored infinite complete graphs into monochromatic paths},
author = {M. Elekes and D. T. Soukup and L. Soukup and Z. Szentmiklóssy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.04955},
year = {2016}
}