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Partitioning 3-edge-colored complete equi-bipartite graphs by monochromatic trees under a color degree condition

Combinatorics 2008-01-03 v2

Abstract

The monochromatic tree partition number of an rr-edge-colored graph GG, denoted by tr(G)t_r(G), is the minimum integer kk such that whenever the edges of GG are colored with rr colors, the vertices of GG can be covered by at most kk vertex-disjoint monochromatic trees. In general, to determine this number is very difficult. For 2-edge-colored complete multipartite graph, Kaneko, Kano, and Suzuki gave the exact value of t2(K(n1,n2,...,nk))t_2(K(n_1,n_2,...,n_k)). In this paper, we prove that if n3n\geq 3, and K(n,n) is 3-edge-colored such that every vertex has color degree 3, then t3(K(n,n))=3.t_3(K(n,n))=3.

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@article{arxiv.0801.0270,
  title  = {Partitioning 3-edge-colored complete equi-bipartite graphs by monochromatic trees under a color degree condition},
  author = {Xueliang Li and Fengxia Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.0270},
  year   = {2008}
}

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