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Gallai-Ramsey number of odd cycles with chords

Combinatorics 2020-09-17 v2

Abstract

A Gallai coloring is a coloring of the edges of a complete graph without rainbow triangles, and a Gallai kk-coloring is a Gallai coloring that uses at most kk colors. For an integer k1k\geq 1, the Gallai-Ramsey number GRk(H)GR_k(H) of a given graph HH is the least positive integer NN such that every Gallai kk-coloring of the complete graph KNK_N contains a monochromatic copy of HH. Let CmC_m denote the cycle on m4m\ge4 vertices and let Θm\Theta_m denote the family of graphs obtained from CmC_m by adding an additional edge joining two non-consecutive vertices. We prove that GRk(Θ2n+1)=n2k+1GR_k(\Theta_{2n+1})=n\cdot 2^k+1 for all k1k\geq 1 and n3n\geq 3. This implies that GRk(C2n+1)=n2k+1GR_k(C_{2n+1})=n\cdot 2^k+1 all k1k\geq 1 and n3n\geq 3. Our result yields a unified proof for the Gallai-Ramsey number of all odd cycles on at least five vertices.

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@article{arxiv.1809.00227,
  title  = {Gallai-Ramsey number of odd cycles with chords},
  author = {Fangfang Zhang and Zi-Xia Song and Yaojun Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.00227},
  year   = {2020}
}