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We show the existence of rainbow perfect matchings in $\mu n$-bounded edge colourings of Dirac bipartite graphs, for a sufficiently small $\mu>0$. As an application of our results, we obtain several results on the existence of rainbow…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-15 Matthew Coulson , Guillem Perarnau

An edge-colouring of a graph $G$ can fail to be rainbow for two reasons: either it contains a monochromatic cherry (a pair of incident edges), or a monochromatic matching of size two. A colouring is a proper colouring if it forbids the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Allan Lo , Klas Markström , Dhruv Mubayi , Katherine Staden , Maya Stein , Lea Weber

Let $G$ be an edge-colored graph. A rainbow (heterochromatic, or multicolored) path of $G$ is such a path in which no two edges have the same color. Let the color degree of a vertex $v$ be the number of different colors that are used on the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-17 He Chen , Xueliang Li

Suppose we are given matchings $M_1,....,M_N$ of size $t$ in some $r$-uniform hypergraph, and let us think of each matching having a different color. How large does $N$ need to be (in terms of $t$ and $r$) such that we can always find a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Cosmin Pohoata , Lisa Sauermann , Dmitrii Zakharov

Given a $c$-edge-coloured multigraph, a proper Hamiltonian path is a path that contains all the vertices of the multigraph such that no two adjacent edges have the same colour. In this work we establish sufficient conditions for an…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-06-23 Raquel Águeda , Valentin Borozan , Marina Groshaus , Yannis Manoussakis , Gervais Mendy , Leandro Montero

Let $H_{n,(p_m)_{m=2,\ldots,M}}$ be a random non-uniform hypergraph of dimension $M$ on $2n$ vertices, where the vertices are split into two disjoint sets of size $n$, and colored by two distinct colors. Each non-monochromatic edge of size…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-18 Debarghya Ghoshdastidar , Ambedkar Dukkipati

An edge-coloring of a complete graph with a set of colors $C$ is called completely balanced if any vertex is incident to the same number of edges of each color from $C$. Erd\H{o}s and Tuza asked in $1993$ whether for any graph $F$ on $\ell$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Maria Axenovich , Felix Christian Clemen

The classical theorem of Vizing states that every graph of maximum degree $d$ admits an edge-coloring with at most $d+1$ colors. Furthermore, as it was earlier shown by K\H{o}nig, $d$ colors suffice if the graph is bipartite. We investigate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-23 Endre Csóka , Gabor Lippner , Oleg Pikhurko

Let $G$ be an edge-coloured graph. A rainbow subgraph in $G$ is a subgraph such that its edges have distinct colours. The minimum colour degree $\delta^c(G)$ of $G$ is the smallest number of distinct colours on the edges incident with a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Allan Lo

A subgraph of an edge-coloured graph is called rainbow if all its edges have distinct colours. The study of rainbow subgraphs goes back to the work of Euler on Latin squares and has been the focus of extensive research ever since. Many…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-03 David Munhá Correia , Alexey Pokrovskiy , Benny Sudakov

Following problems posed by Gy\'arf\'as, we show that for every $r$-edge-colouring of $K_n$ there is a monochromatic triple star of order at least $n/(r-1)$, improving a previous result by Ruszink\'o. An edge colouring of a graph is called…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-18 Shoham Letzter

A $k$-edge-coloured graph is colour-balanced if each colour appears equally often. Resolving a conjecture of Pardey and Rautenbach, we show that any colour-balanced $k$-edge-coloured complete graph $K_{2kt}$ contains a perfect matching that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Emma Hogan , Alex Scott , Dmitry Tsarev

Let $f(n)$ be the smallest number such that every collection of $n$ matchings, each of size at least $f(n)$, in a bipartite graph, has a full rainbow matching. Generalizing famous conjectures of Ryser, Brualdi and Stein, Aharoni and Berger…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-24 Ron Aharoni , Dani Kotlar , Ran Ziv

A conjecture of Erd\H{o}s, Gy\'arf\'as, and Pyber says that in any edge-colouring of a complete graph with r colours, it is possible to cover all the vertices with r vertex-disjoint monochromatic cycles. So far, this conjecture has been…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-05-25 Alexey Pokrovskiy

Gy\'arf\'as famously showed that in every $r$-coloring of the edges of the complete graph $K_n$, there is a monochromatic connected component with at least $\frac{n}{r-1}$ vertices. A recent line of study by Conlon, Tyomkyn, and the second…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Lyuben Lichev , Sammy Luo

Let $[n]$ denote the set $\{1, 2, \ldots, n\}$ and $\mathcal{F}^{(r)}_{n,k,a}$ be an $r$-uniform hypergraph on the vertex set $[n]$ with edge set consisting of all the $r$-element subsets of $[n]$ that contains at least $a$ vertices in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Erica L. L. Liu , Jian Wang

We consider edge colorings of graphs. An edge coloring is a majority coloring if for every vertex at most half of the edges incident with it are in one color. And edge coloring is a distinguishing coloring if for every non-trivial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Aleksandra Gorzkowska , Magdalena Prorok

For a given graph $H$ and $n\geq 1$, let $f(n,H)$ denote the maximum number $c$ for which there is a way to color the edges of the complete graph $K_n$ with $c$ colors such that every subgraph $H$ of $K_n$ has at least two edges of the same…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 He Chen , Xueliang Li , Jianhua Tu

A subgraph of an edge-coloured graph is called rainbow if all its edges have distinct colours. The study of rainbow subgraphs goes back more than two hundred years to the work of Euler on Latin squares and has been the focus of extensive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Richard Montgomery , Alexey Pokrovskiy , Benny Sudakov

We show that for any colouring of the edges of the complete bipartite graph $K_{n,n}$ with 3 colours there are 5 disjoint monochromatic cycles which together cover all but $o(n)$ of the vertices. In the same situation, 18 disjoint…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-18 Richard Lang , Oliver Schaudt , Maya Stein