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Rainbow triangles in arc-colored tournaments

Combinatorics 2020-03-10 v2

Abstract

Let TnT_{n} be an arc-colored tournament of order nn. The maximum monochromatic indegree Δmon(Tn)\Delta^{-mon}(T_{n}) (resp. outdegree Δ+mon(Tn)\Delta^{+mon}(T_{n})) of TnT_{n} is the maximum number of in-arcs (resp. out-arcs) of a same color incident to a vertex of TnT_{n}. The irregularity i(Tn)i(T_{n}) of TnT_{n} is the maximum difference between the indegree and outdegree of a vertex of TnT_{n}. A subdigraph HH of an arc-colored digraph DD is called rainbow if each pair of arcs in HH have distinct colors. In this paper, we show that each vertex vv in an arc-colored tournament TnT_{n} with Δmon(Tn)Δ+mon(Tn)\Delta^{-mon}(T_n)\leq\Delta^{+mon}(T_n) is contained in at least δ(v)(nδ(v)i(Tn))2[Δmon(Tn)(n1)+Δ+mon(Tn)d+(v)]\frac{\delta(v)(n-\delta(v)-i(T_n))}{2}-[\Delta^{-mon}(T_{n})(n-1)+\Delta^{+mon}(T_{n})d^+(v)] rainbow triangles, where δ(v)=min{d+(v),d(v)}\delta(v)=\min\{d^+(v), d^-(v)\}. We also give some maximum monochromatic degree conditions for TnT_{n} to contain rainbow triangles, and to contain rainbow triangles passing through a given vertex. Finally, we present some examples showing that some of the conditions in our results are best possible. Keywords: arc-colored tournament, rainbow triangle, maximum monochromatic indegree (outdegree), irregularity

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@article{arxiv.1805.03412,
  title  = {Rainbow triangles in arc-colored tournaments},
  author = {Wei Li and Shenggui Zhang and Yandong Bai and Ruonan Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.03412},
  year   = {2020}
}
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