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Rainbow even cycles

Combinatorics 2024-04-30 v3

Abstract

We prove that every family of (not necessarily distinct) even cycles D1,,D1.2(n1)+1D_1, \dotsc, D_{\lfloor 1.2(n-1) \rfloor+1} on some fixed nn-vertex set has a rainbow even cycle (that is, a set of edges from distinct DiD_i's, forming an even cycle). This resolves an open problem of Aharoni, Briggs, Holzman and Jiang. Moreover, the result is best possible for every positive integer nn.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2211.09530,
  title  = {Rainbow even cycles},
  author = {Zichao Dong and Zijian Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.09530},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

20 pages, 10 figures

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