Periods in missing lengths of rainbow cycles
Abstract
A cycle in an edge-colored graph is said to be rainbow if no two of its edges have the same color. For a complete, infinite, edge-colored graph , define \mathfrak{S}(G)=\{n\ge 2\;|\;\text{no nG is rainbow}\}. Then is a monoid with respect to the operation , and thus there is a least positive integer , the period of , such that contains the arithmetic progression for some sufficiently large . Given that , what can be said about ? Alexeev showed that when is odd, and conjectured that always divides . We prove Alexeev's conjecture: Let when is odd, when is divisible by four, and otherwise. If then is a divisor of . Moreover, contains the arithmetic progression for some . The key observations are: If then . If then . The main result cannot be improved since for every there are , such that , , and , .
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1509.05632,
title = {Periods in missing lengths of rainbow cycles},
author = {Petr Vojtěchovský},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.05632},
year = {2015}
}