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Given an undirected graph $G$ and a multiset of $k$ terminal pairs $\mathcal{X}$, the Vertex-Disjoint Paths (\VDP) and Edge-Disjoint Paths (\EDP) problems ask whether $G$ has $k$ pairwise internally vertex-disjoint paths and $k$ pairwise…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Juhi Chaudhary , Harmender Gahlawat , Michal Włodarczyk , Meirav Zehavi

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

Let $G$ be a connected graph. The notion \emph{the rainbow connection number $rc(G)$} of a graph $G$ was introduced recently by Chartrand et al. Basavaraju et al. showed that for every bridgeless graph $G$ with radius $r$, $rc(G)\leq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-05-05 Jiuying Dong , Xueliang Li

A map between connected $2$-manifolds has a geometric kernel if it sends a non-contractible simple loop to a null-homotopic loop. While every non-$\pi_1$-injective map between compact surfaces admits a geometric kernel, this generally fails…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-29 Sumanta Das

Let $G = (V, E)$ be an $n$-vertex edge-colored graph. In 2013, H. Li proved that if every vertex $v \in V$ is incident to at least $(n+1)/2$ distinctly colored edges, then $G$ admits a rainbow triangle. We prove that the same hypothesis…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Andrzej Czygrinow , Theodore Molla , Brendan Nagle , Roy Oursler

Rainbow coloring is a special case of edge coloring, where there must be at least one path between every distinct pair of vertices that consists of different color edges. Here, we may use the same color for the adjacent edges of a graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Debasis Dwibedy , Rakesh Mohanty , Arun Khamari

The oriented diameter of a bridgeless graph $G$ is $\min\{diam(H)\ | H\ is\ an orientation\ of\ G\}$. A path in an edge-colored graph $G$, where adjacent edges may have the same color, is called rainbow if no two edges of the path are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-12-06 Xiaolong Huang , Hengzhe Li , Xueliang Li , Yuefang Sun

Fox--Grinshpun--Pach showed that every $3$-coloring of the complete graph on $n$ vertices without a rainbow triangle contains a clique of size $\Omega\left(n^{1/3}\log^2 n\right)$ which uses at most two colors, and this bound is tight up to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-05 Adam Zsolt Wagner

A tree in an edge-colored graph is said to be rainbow if no two edges on the tree share the same color. An edge-coloring of $G$ is called 3-rainbow if for any three vertices in $G$, there exists a rainbow tree connecting them. The 3-rainbow…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-15 Qingqiong Cai , Xueliang Li , Yan Zhao

It is well known that kernels in graphs are powerful and useful structures, for instance in the theory of games. However, a kernel does not always exist and Chv\'atal proved in 1973 that it is an NP-Complete problem to decide its existence.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-10-09 Serge Burckel

A path in an edge-colored graph, where adjacent edges may be colored the same, is a rainbow path if no two edges of it are colored the same. For any two vertices $u$ and $v$ of $G$, a rainbow $u-v$ geodesic in $G$ is a rainbow $u-v$ path of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-11-01 Xueliang Li , Yuefang Sun

One of the most interesting new developments in hypergraph colourings in these last few years has been Voloshin's notion of colourings of mixed hypergraphs. In this paper we shall study a specific instance of Voloshin's idea: a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-26 Yair Caro , Josef Lauri

A graph $G$ is called a replication graph of a graph $H$ if $G$ is obtained from $H$ by replacing vertices of $H$ by arbitrary cliques of vertices and then replacing each edge in $H$ by all the edges between corresponding cligues. For a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-01-26 Marek Szykuła , Andrzej Kisielewicz

A vertex-colored graph is {\it rainbow vertex-connected} if any two vertices are connected by a path whose internal vertices have distinct colors, which was introduced by Krivelevich and Yuster. The {\it rainbow vertex-connection} of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-12-17 Xueliang Li , Yongtang Shi

A meta-conjecture of Coulson, Keevash, Perarnau and Yepremyan states that above the extremal threshold for a given spanning structure in a (hyper-)graph, one can find a rainbow version of that spanning structure in any suitably bounded…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Amarja Kathapurkar , Patrick Morris , Guillem Perarnau

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

Let $G_1,...,G_n$ be graphs on the same vertex set of size $n$, each graph with minimum degree $\delta(G_i)\ge n/2$. A recent conjecture of Aharoni asserts that there exists a rainbow Hamiltonian cycle i.e. a cycle with edge set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Yangyang Cheng , Guanghui Wang , Yi Zhao

We consider acyclic r-colorings in graphs and digraphs: they color the vertices in r colors, each of which induces an acyclic graph or digraph. (This includes the dichromatic number of a digraph, and the arboricity of a graph.) For any…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Tom\' as Feder , Pavol Hell , Carlos Subi

Given a matroid together with a coloring of its ground set, a subset of its elements is called rainbow colored if no two of its elements have the same color. We show that if a binary matroid of rank $r$ is colored with exactly $r$ colors,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-02 Kristóf Bérczi , Tamás Schwarcz

Let $G$ be a connected multigraph with $n$ vertices, and suppose $G$ has been edge-colored with $n-1$ colors so that each color class induces a spanning tree. Rota's Basis Conjecture for graphic matroids posits that one can find $n-1$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-02 Anant Asthana , Shreev Goyal