English

Multicolor Gallai-Ramsey numbers of $C_9$ and $C_{11}$

Combinatorics 2018-04-03 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 kk colors. We study Ramsey-type problems in Gallai colorings. Given an integer k1k\ge1 and a graph HH, the Gallai-Ramsey number GRk(H)GR_k(H) is the least positive integer nn such that every Gallai kk-coloring of the complete graph on nn vertices contains a monochromatic copy of HH. It turns out that GRk(H)GR_k(H) is more well-behaved than the classical Ramsey number Rk(H)R_k(H). However, finding exact values of GRk(H)GR_k (H) is far from trivial. In this paper, we study Gallai-Ramsey numbers of odd cycles. We prove that for n{4,5}n\in\{4,5\} and all k1k\ge1, GRk(C2n+1)=n2k+1GR_k(C_{2n+1})= n\cdot 2^k+1. This new result provides partial evidence for the first two open cases of the Triple Odd Cycle Conjecture of Bondy and Erd\H{o}s from 1973. Our technique relies heavily on the structural result of Gallai on Gallai colorings of complete graphs. We believe the method we developed can be used to determine the exact values of GRk(C2n+1)GR_k(C_{2n+1}) for all n6n\ge6.

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@article{arxiv.1802.06503,
  title  = {Multicolor Gallai-Ramsey numbers of $C_9$ and $C_{11}$},
  author = {Christian Bosse and Zi-Xia Song},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.06503},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

A long and technical proof of Gallai-Ramsey numbers of C9 can be found in our preprint arXiv:1709.06130, which will not be submitted for publication