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A locally irregular multigraph is a multigraph whose adjacent vertices have distinct degrees. The locally irregular edge coloring is an edge coloring of a multigraph $G$ such that every color induces a locally irregular submultigraph of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-19 Igor Grzelec , Mariusz Woźniak

An edge-coloring of a hypergraph is {\em spanning} if every vertex sees every color used in the coloring. In this paper, we prove that for $k \geq 2r \geq 6$, in any spanning $k$-coloring of the edges of a complete $r$-partite $r$-uniform…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Luke Hawranick , Ruth Luo

We study graphs where each edge adjacent to a vertex of small degree (7 and 9, respectively) belongs to many triangles (4 and 5, respectively) and show that these graphs contain a complete graph (K_6 and K_7, respectively) as a minor. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-04-22 Boris Albar , Daniel Gonçalves

An edge colouring of a graph is said to be an $r$-local colouring if the edges incident to any vertex are coloured with at most $r$ colours. Generalising a result of Bessy and Thomass\'e, we prove that the vertex set of any $2$-locally…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-12 David Conlon , Maya Stein

A graph H is k-common if the number of monochromatic copies of H in a k-edge-coloring of K_n is asymptotically minimized by a random coloring. For every k, we construct a connected non-bipartite k-common graph. This resolves a problem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Daniel Kral , Jonathan A. Noel , Sergey Norin , Jan Volec , Fan Wei

Lehel conjectured in the 1970s that every red and blue edge-coloured complete graph can be partitioned into two monochromatic cycles. This was confirmed in 2010 by Bessy and Thomass\'e. However, the host graph $G$ does not have to be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Peter Allen , Julia Böttcher , Richard Lang , Jozef Skokan , Maya Stein

It is well-known that in every $r$-coloring of the edges of the complete bipartite graph $K_{m,n}$ there is a monochromatic connected component with at least ${m+n\over r}$ vertices. In this paper we study an extension of this problem by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-10 Louis DeBiasio , Robert A. Krueger , Gábor N. Sárközy

Let $T$ be a tree with $t$ edges. We show that the number of isomorphic (labeled) copies of $T$ in a graph $G = (V,E)$ of minimum degree at least $t$ is at least \[2|E| \prod_{v \in V} (d(v) - t + 1)^{\frac{(t-1)d(v)}{2|E|}}.\]…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Dhruv Mubayi , Jacques Verstraete

We show that for any $2$-local colouring of the edges of the balanced complete bipartite graph $K_{n,n}$, its vertices can be covered with at most~$3$ disjoint monochromatic paths. And, we can cover almost all vertices of any complete or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-13 Richard Lang , Maya Stein

A graph H is common if the number of monochromatic copies of H in a 2-edge-colouring of the complete graph is minimised by the random colouring. Burr and Rosta, extending a famous conjecture by Erdos, conjectured that every graph is common.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-28 Andrzej Grzesik , Joonkyung Lee , Bernard Lidický , Jan Volec

In 2019, Letzter confirmed a conjecture of Balogh, Bar\'at, Gerbner, Gy\'arf\'as and S\'ark\"ozy, proving that every large $2$-edge-coloured graph $G$ on $n$ vertices with minimum degree at least $3n/4$ can be partitioned into two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Patrick Arras

We answer a question of Gy\'arf\'as and S\'ark\"ozy from 2013 by showing that every 2-edge-coloured complete 3-uniform hypergraph can be partitioned into two monochromatic tight paths of different colours. We also give a lower bound for the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-27 Maya Stein

Given an arbitrary graph $G$ we study the chromatic number of a random subgraph $G_{1/2}$ obtained from $G$ by removing each edge independently with probability $1/2$. Studying $\chi(G_{1/2})$ has been suggested by Bukh~\cite{Bukh}, who…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-03 Igor Shinkar

Lehel conjectured that in every $2$-coloring of the edges of $K_n$, there is a vertex disjoint red and blue cycle which span $V(K_n)$. \L uczak, R\"odl, and Szemer\'edi proved Lehel's conjecture for large $n$, Allen gave a different proof…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-02 Louis DeBiasio , Luke Nelsen

Given a graph $F$ and an integer $r \ge 2$, a partition $\widehat{F}$ of the edge set of $F$ into at most $r$ classes, and a graph $G$, define $c_{r, \widehat{F}}(G)$ as the number of $r$-colorings of the edges of $G$ that do not contain a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-30 Fabricio S. Benevides , Carlos Hoppen , Rudini Menezes Sampaio

If $k\geq 0$, then a $k$-edge-coloring of a graph $G$ is an assignment of colors to edges of $G$ from the set of $k$ colors, so that adjacent edges receive different colors. A $k$-edge-colorable subgraph of $G$ is maximum if it is the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Liana Karapetyan , Vahan Mkrtchyan

We prove asymptotically optimal bounds on the number of edges a graph $G$ must have in order that any $r$-colouring of $E(G)$ has a colour class which contains every $D$-degenerate graph on $n$ vertices with bounded maximum degree. We also…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Peter Allen , Julia Böttcher

Li, Nikiforov and Schelp conjectured that a 2-edge coloured graph G with order n and minimal degree strictly greater than 3n/4 contains a monochromatic cycle of length l, for all l at least four and at most n/2. We prove this conjecture for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-27 Alex Scott , Matthew White

Let $G$ be a simple graph with maximum degree $\Delta(G)$. A subgraph $H$ of $G$ is overfull if $|E(H)|>\Delta(G)\lfloor |V(H)|/2 \rfloor$. Chetwynd and Hilton in 1985 conjectured that a graph $G$ with $\Delta(G)>|V(G)|/3$ has chromatic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Michael J. Plantholt , Songling Shan

We generalize the Five Color Theorem by showing that it extends to graphs with two crossings. Furthermore, we show that if a graph has three crossings, but does not contain K_6 as a subgraph, then it is also 5-colorable. We also consider…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bogdan Oporowski , David Zhao