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King-serf duo by monochromatic paths in k-edge-coloured tournaments

Combinatorics 2017-05-03 v1

Abstract

An open conjecture of Erd\H{o}s states that for every positive integer kk there is a (least) positive integer f(k)f(k) so that whenever a tournament has its edges colored with kk colors, there exists a set SS of at most f(k)f(k) vertices so that every vertex has a monochromatic path to some point in SS. We consider a related question and show that for every (finite or infinite) cardinal κ>0\kappa>0 there is a cardinal λκ \lambda_\kappa such that in every κ\kappa-edge-coloured tournament there exist disjoint vertex sets K,SK,S with total size at most λκ \lambda_\kappa so that every vertex v v has a monochromatic path of length at most two from KK to vv or from vv to SS.

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@article{arxiv.1705.00896,
  title  = {King-serf duo by monochromatic paths in k-edge-coloured tournaments},
  author = {Kristóf Bérczi and Attila Joó},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.00896},
  year   = {2017}
}

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