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 be positive integers. For a tournament , let be the largest integer such that every -edge coloring of has a path-monochromatic subtree with at least vertices and let be the restriction to subtrees of depth at most . It was proved by Landau that and proved by Sands et al. that where . Here we consider and 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 and , i.e., when is a random tournament.
Cite
@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}
}