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$(g,f)$-Chromatic spanning trees and forests

Combinatorics 2019-04-15 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

A heterochromatic (or rainbow) graph is an edge-colored graph whose edges have distinct colors, that is, where each color appears at most once. In this paper, I propose a (g,f)(g,f)-chromatic graph as an edge-colored graph where each color cc appears at least g(c)g(c) times and at most f(c)f(c) times. I also present a necessary and sufficient condition for edge-colored graphs (not necessary to be proper) to have a (g,f)(g,f)-chromatic spanning tree. Using this criterion, I show that an edge-colored complete graph GG has a spanning tree with a color probability distribution `similar' to that of GG. Moreover, I conjecture that an edge-colored complete graph GG of order 2n2n (n3)(n \ge 3) can be partitioned into nn edge-disjoint spanning trees such that each has a color probability distribution `similar' to that of GG.

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@article{arxiv.1809.10355,
  title  = {$(g,f)$-Chromatic spanning trees and forests},
  author = {Kazuhiro Suzuki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.10355},
  year   = {2019}
}
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