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Path-monochromatic bounded depth rooted trees in (random) tournaments

Combinatorics 2024-04-08 v1

Abstract

An edge-colored rooted directed tree (aka arborescence) is path-monochromatic if every path in it is monochromatic. Let k,k,\ell be positive integers. For a tournament TT, let fT(k)f_T(k) be the largest integer such that every kk-edge coloring of TT has a path-monochromatic subtree with at least fT(k)f_T(k) vertices and let fT(k,)f_T(k,\ell) be the restriction to subtrees of depth at most \ell. It was proved by Landau that fT(1,2)=nf_T(1,2)=n and proved by Sands et al. that fT(2)=nf_T(2)=n where V(T)=n|V(T)|=n. Here we consider fT(k)f_T(k) and fT(k,)f_T(k,\ell) in more generality, determine their extremal values in most cases, and in fact in all cases assuming the Caccetta-H\"aggkvist Conjecture. We also study the typical value of fT(k)f_T(k) and fT(k,)f_T(k,\ell), i.e., when TT is a random tournament.

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@article{arxiv.2404.03752,
  title  = {Path-monochromatic bounded depth rooted trees in (random) tournaments},
  author = {Raphael Yuster},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.03752},
  year   = {2024}
}
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