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On 2-colored graphs and partitions of boxes

Combinatorics 2018-10-23 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

We prove that if the edges of a graph G can be colored blue or red in such a way that every vertex belongs to a monochromatic k-clique of each color, then G has at least 4(k-1) vertices. This confirms a conjecture of Bucic, Lidicky, Long, and Wagner (arXiv:1805.11278[math.CO]) and thereby solves the 2-dimensional case of their problem about partitions of discrete boxes with the k-piercing property. We also characterize the case of equality in our result.

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@article{arxiv.1810.08920,
  title  = {On 2-colored graphs and partitions of boxes},
  author = {Ron Holzman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.08920},
  year   = {2018}
}

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11 pages, 1 figure