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Rainbow cycles through specified vertices

Combinatorics 2024-05-31 v1

Abstract

An edge-coloured cycle is rainbow if the edges have distinct colours. Let GG be a graph such that any kk vertices lie in a cycle of GG. The kk-rainbow cycle index of GG, denoted by crxk(G)crx_k(G), is the minimum number of colours required to colour the edges of GG such that, for every set SS of kk vertices in GG, there exists a rainbow cycle in GG containing SS. In this paper, we will first prove some results about the parameter crxk(G)crx_k(G) for general graphs GG. One of the results is a classification of all graphs GG such that crxk(G)=e(G)crx_k(G)=e(G), for k=1,2k=1,2. We will also determine crxk(G)crx_k(G) for some specific graphs GG, including wheels, complete graphs, complete bipartite and multipartite graphs, and discrete cubes.

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@article{arxiv.2405.19717,
  title  = {Rainbow cycles through specified vertices},
  author = {Henry Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.19717},
  year   = {2024}
}

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23 pages, 3 figures

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