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An edge-colored graph $G$ is rainbow connected if any two vertices are connected by a path whose edges have distinct colors. The rainbow connection number of a connected graph $G$, denoted by $rc(G)$, is the smallest number of colors that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-07 Jiuying Dong , Xueliang Li

Ryser's conjecture says that for every $r$-partite hypergraph $H$ with matching number $\nu(H)$, the vertex cover number is at most $(r-1)\nu(H)$. This far reaching generalization of K\"onig's theorem is only known to be true for $r\leq 3$,…

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Extremal problems concerning the number of independent sets or complete subgraphs in a graph have been well studied in recent years. Cutler and Radcliffe proved that among graphs with $n$ vertices and maximum degree at most $r$, where $n =…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-11 R. Kirsch , A. J. Radcliffe

Motivated by the Caccetta-Haggkvist Conjecture, we prove that every digraph on n vertices with minimum outdegree 0.3465n contains an oriented triangle. This improves the bound of 0.3532n of Hamburger, Haxell and Kostochka. The main new tool…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-31 Jan Hladky , Daniel Kral , Sergey Norin

A famous conjecture of Tuza \cite{tuza} is that the minimal number of edges needed to cover all triangles in a graph is at most twice the maximal number of edge-disjoint triangles. We propose a wider setting for this conjecture. For a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Ron Aharoni , Shira Zerbib

In this short note, we present a purely entropic proof that in a $3$-edge-colored simple graph with $R$ red edges, $G$ green edges, and $B$ blue edges, the number of rainbow triangles is at most $\sqrt{2RGB}$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-22 Ting-Wei Chao , Hung-Hsun Hans Yu

Let $H_{n,p,r}^{(k)}$ denote a randomly colored random hypergraph, constructed on the vertex set $[n]$ by taking each $k$-tuple independently with probability $p$, and then independently coloring it with a random color from the set $[r]$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-13 Andrzej Dudek , Sean English , Alan Frieze

A path in an edge-colored graph $G$, where adjacent edges may be colored the same, is a rainbow path if every two edges of it receive distinct colors. The rainbow connection number of a connected graph $G$, denoted by $rc(G)$, is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-23 Qingqiong Cai , Xueliang Li , Yan Zhao

A path in an edge-colored graph $G$ is called a rainbow path if no two edges of the path are colored the same. The minimum number of colors required to color the edges of $G$ such that every pair of vertices are connected by at least $k$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-27 Xiaolin Chen , Xueliang Li , Huishu Lian

An edge-colored graph is said to be rainbow if all its edges have distinct colors. In this paper, we study the rainbow analogue of a fundamental result of Mader [\emph{Math. Ann.} \textbf{174} (1967), 265--268] on the existence of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Peiru Kuang , Yan Wang

The {\em rainbow vertex-connection number}, $rvc(G)$, of a connected graph $G$ is the minimum number of colors needed to color its vertices such that every pair of vertices is connected by at least one path whose internal vertices have…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-27 Xueliang Li , Sujuan Liu

An edge-coloured path is \emph{rainbow} if its edges have distinct colours. An edge-coloured connected graph is said to be \emph{rainbow connected} if any two vertices are connected by a rainbow path, and \emph{strongly rainbow connected}…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Hui Lei , Shasha Li , Henry Liu , Yongtang Shi

An arc-coloured digraph $D$ is said to be \emph{rainbow connected} if for every two vertices $u$ and $v$ there is an $uv$-path all whose arcs have different colours. The minimun number of colours required to make the digraph rainbow…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-28 Jesús Alva-Samos , Juan José Montellano-Ballesteros

A path in an edge-colored graph $G$, where adjacent edges may be colored the same, is called a rainbow path if no two edges of it are colored the same. A nontrivial connected graph $G$ is rainbow connected if for any two vertices of $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-01-05 Xueliang Li , Yuefang Sun

For fixed $k\ge 2$, determining the order of magnitude of the number of edges in an $n$-vertex bipartite graph not containing $C_{2k}$, the cycle of length $2k$, is a long-standing open problem. We consider an extension of this problem to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Sayan Mukherjee

Let $\mathbf{G}:=(G_1, G_2, G_3)$ be a triple of graphs on a common vertex set $V$ of size $n$. A rainbow triangle in $\mathbf{G}$ is a triple of edges $(e_1, e_2, e_3)$ with $e_i\in G_i$ for each $i$ and $\{e_1, e_2, e_3\}$ forming a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Victor Falgas-Ravry , Klas Markström , Eero Räty

Given graphs $F$ and $H$, the generalized rainbow Tur\'an number $\text{ex}(n,F,\text{rainbow-}H)$ is the maximum number of copies of $F$ in an $n$-vertex graph with a proper edge-coloring that contains no rainbow copy of $H$. B. Janzer…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-23 József Balogh , Michelle Delcourt , Emily Heath , Lina Li

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 path in an edge-coloured graph is called \emph{rainbow path} if its edges receive pairwise distinct colours. An edge-coloured graph is said to be \emph{rainbow connected} if any two distinct vertices of the graph are connected by a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Trung Duy Doan , Ingo Schiermeyer

A path in an edge-colored graph is said to be rainbow if no color repeats on it. An edge-colored graph is said to be rainbow $k$-connected if every pair of vertices is connected by $k$ internally disjoint rainbow paths. The rainbow…

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