The absence of monochromatic triangle implies various properly colored spanning trees
Abstract
An edge-colored graph is called properly colored if every two adjacent edges are assigned different colors. A monochromatic triangle is a cycle of length 3 with all the edges having the same color. Given a tree , let be the collection of -vertex trees that are subdivisions of . It is conjectured that for each fixed tree , there is a function such that for each integer and each , every edge-colored complete graph without containing monochromatic triangle must contain a properly colored copy of . We confirm the conjecture in the case that is a star. A weaker version of the above conjecture is also obtained. Moreover, to get a nice quantitative estimation of when is a star requires determining the constraint Ramsey number of a monochromatic triangle and a rainbow star, which is of independent interest.
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@article{arxiv.2403.09082,
title = {The absence of monochromatic triangle implies various properly colored spanning trees},
author = {Ruonan Li and Ruhui Lu and Xueli Su and Shenggui Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.09082},
year = {2026}
}
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15 pages