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Partitioning edge-coloured infinite complete bipartite graphs into monochromatic paths

Combinatorics 2018-08-30 v1

Abstract

In 1978, Richard Rado showed that every edge-coloured complete graph of countably infinite order can be partitioned into monochromatic paths of different colours. He asked whether this remains true for uncountable complete graphs and a notion of \emph{generalised paths}. In 2016, Daniel Soukup answered this in the affirmative and conjectured that a similar result should hold for complete bipartite graphs with bipartition classes of the same infinite cardinality, namely that every such graph edge-coloured with rr colours can be partitioned into 2r12r-1 monochromatic generalised paths with each colour being used at most twice. In the present paper, we give an affirmative answer to Soukup's conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.1808.09836,
  title  = {Partitioning edge-coloured infinite complete bipartite graphs into monochromatic paths},
  author = {Carl Bürger and Max Pitz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.09836},
  year   = {2018}
}

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16 pages, 5 figures

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