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Gallai-Ramsey numbers of $C_{10}$ and $C_{12}$

Combinatorics 2018-08-31 v1

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 kk colors. Given an integer k1k\ge1 and graphs H1,,HkH_1, \ldots, H_k, the Gallai-Ramsey number GR(H1,,Hk)GR(H_1, \ldots, H_k) is the least integer nn such that every Gallai kk-coloring of the complete graph KnK_n contains a monochromatic copy of HiH_i in color ii for some i{1,,k}i \in \{1, \ldots, k\}. When H=H1==HkH = H_1 = \cdots = H_k, we simply write GRk(H)GR_k(H). We continue to study Gallai-Ramsey numbers of even cycles and paths. For all n3n\ge3 and k1k\ge1, let Gi=P2i+3G_i=P_{2i+3} be a path on 2i+32i+3 vertices for all i{0,1,,n2}i\in\{0,1, \ldots, n-2\} and Gn1{C2n,P2n+1}G_{n-1}\in\{C_{2n}, P_{2n+1}\}. Let ij{0,1,,n1} i_j\in\{0,1,\ldots, n-1\} for all j{1,,k}j\in\{1, \ldots, k\} with i1i2ik i_1\ge i_2\ge\cdots\ge i_k . Song recently conjectured that GR(Gi1,,Gik)=3+min{i1,n2}+j=1kijGR(G_{i_1}, \ldots, G_{i_k}) = 3+\min\{i_1, n^*-2\}+\sum_{j=1}^k i_j, where n=nn^* =n when Gi1P2n+1G_{i_1}\ne P_{2n+1} and n=n+1n^* =n+1 when Gi1=P2n+1G_{i_1}= P_{2n+1}. This conjecture has been verified to be true for n{3,4}n\in\{3,4\} and all k1k\ge1. In this paper, we prove that the aforementioned conjecture holds for n{5,6}n \in\{5, 6\} and all k1k \ge1. Our result implies that for all k1k \ge 1, GRk(C2n)=GRk(P2n)=(n1)k+n+1GR_k(C_{2n}) = GR_k(P_{2n}) = (n-1)k+n+1 for n{5,6}n\in\{5,6\} and GRk(P2n+1)=(n1)k+n+2GR_k(P_{2n+1})= (n-1)k+n+2 for 1n61\le n \le6 .

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@article{arxiv.1808.10282,
  title  = {Gallai-Ramsey numbers of $C_{10}$ and $C_{12}$},
  author = {Hui Lei and Yongtang Shi and Zi-Xia Song and Jingmei Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.10282},
  year   = {2018}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1803.07963