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Rainbow cycles for families of matchings

Combinatorics 2024-09-25 v3 Discrete Mathematics Probability

Abstract

Given a graph GG and a coloring of its edges, a subgraph of GG is called rainbow if its edges have distinct colors. The rainbow girth of an edge coloring of G is the minimum length of a rainbow cycle in G. A generalization of the famous Caccetta-H\"aggkvist conjecture, proposed by the first author, is that if in an coloring of the edge set of an nn-vertex graph by nn colors, in which each color class is of size kk, the rainbow girth is at most nk\lceil \frac{n}{k} \rceil. In the known examples for sharpness of this conjecture the color classes are stars, suggesting that when the color classes are matchings, the result may be improved. We show that the rainbow girth of nn matchings of size at least 2 is O(logn)O(\log n).

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@article{arxiv.2110.14332,
  title  = {Rainbow cycles for families of matchings},
  author = {Ron Aharoni and He Guo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.14332},
  year   = {2024}
}

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5 pages; minor edits; to appear in Israel Journal of Mathematics