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Long monochromatic paths and cycles in 2-edge-colored multipartite graphs

Combinatorics 2019-05-14 v1

Abstract

We solve four similar problems: For every fixed ss and large nn, we describe all values of n1,,nsn_1,\ldots,n_s such that for every 22-edge-coloring of the complete ss-partite graph Kn1,,nsK_{n_1,\ldots,n_s} there exists a monochromatic (i) cycle C2nC_{2n} with 2n2n vertices, (ii) cycle C2nC_{\geq 2n} with at least 2n2n vertices, (iii) path P2nP_{2n} with 2n2n vertices, and (iv) path P2n+1P_{2n+1} with 2n+12n+1 vertices. This implies a generalization for large nn of the conjecture by Gy\'arf\'as, Ruszink\'o, S\'ark\H{o}zy and Szemer\'edi that for every 22-edge-coloring of the complete 33-partite graph Kn,n,nK_{n,n,n} there is a monochromatic path P2n+1P_{2n+1}. An important tool is our recent stability theorem on monochromatic connected matchings.

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@article{arxiv.1905.04657,
  title  = {Long monochromatic paths and cycles in 2-edge-colored multipartite graphs},
  author = {József Balogh and Alexandr Kostochka and Mikhail Lavrov and Xujun Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.04657},
  year   = {2019}
}

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46 pages, 4 figures

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