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A path in an edge colored graph is said to be a rainbow path if no two edges on the path have the same color. An edge colored graph is (strongly) rainbow connected if there exists a (geodesic) rainbow path between every pair of vertices.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-04-13 Prabhanjan Ananth , Meghana Nasre

Given two graphs $G$ and $H$, let $f(G,H)$ denote the maximum number $c$ for which there is a way to color the edges of $G$ with $c$ colors such that every subgraph $H$ of $G$ has at least two edges of the same color. Equivalently, any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xueliang Li , Jianhua Tu , Zemin Jin

Finding near-rainbow Hamilton cycles in properly edge-coloured graphs was first studied by Andersen, who proved in 1989 that every proper edge colouring of the complete graph on $n$ vertices contains a Hamilton cycle with at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Danni Peng , Zhifei Yan

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 $rc(G)$, is the smallest number of colors that are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-12-05 Arash Ahadi , Ali Dehghan

Strengthening Hadwiger's conjecture, Gerards and Seymour conjectured in 1995 that every graph with no odd $K_t$-minor is properly $(t-1)$-colorable, this is known as the Odd Hadwiger's conjecture. We prove a relaxation of the above…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Raphael Steiner

Many well-studied problems in extremal combinatorics deal with the maximum possible size of a family of objects in which every pair of objects satisfies a given restriction. One problem of this type was recently raised by Alon, Gujgiczer,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Lior Gishboliner , Zhihan Jin , Benny Sudakov

For $n\geq s> r\geq 1$ and $k\geq 2$, write $n \rightarrow (s)_{k}^r$ if every hyperedge colouring with $k$ colours of the complete $r$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices has a monochromatic subset of size $s$. Improving upon previous…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Bruno Jartoux , Chaya Keller , Shakhar Smorodinsky , Yelena Yuditsky

We introduce the algorithmic problem of finding a locally rainbow path of length $\ell$ connecting two distinguished vertices $s$ and $t$ in a vertex-colored directed graph. Herein, a path is locally rainbow if between any two visits of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Till Fluschnik , Leon Kellerhals , Malte Renken

The extremal problem of hypergraph colorings related to Erd\H{o}s--Hajnal property $B$-problem is considered. Let $k$ be a natural number. The problem is to find the value of $m_k(n)$ equal to the minimal number of edges in an $n$-uniform…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-29 Yury Demidovich

We prove several results on approximate decompositions of edge-coloured quasirandom graphs into rainbow spanning structures. More precisely, we say that an edge-colouring of a graph is locally $\ell$-bounded if no vertex is incident to more…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Jaehoon Kim , Daniela Kühn , Andrey Kupavskii , Deryk Osthus

The concept of $k$-rainbow index $rx_k(G)$ of a connected graph $G$, introduced by Chartrand, Okamoto and Zhang, is a natural generalization of the rainbow connection number. Let $t(n,k,\ell)$ denote the minimum size of a connected graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-28 Thomas Y. H. Liu

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

Motivated by the Erd\H{o}s-Faber-Lov\'{a}sz (EFL) conjecture for hypergraphs, we consider the list edge coloring of linear hypergraphs. We show that if the hyper-edge sizes are bounded between $i$ and $C_{i,\epsilon} \sqrt{n}$ inclusive,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Vance Faber , David G. Harris

Given an edge-colored graph $G$, we denote the number of colors as $c(G)$, and the number of edges as $e(G)$. An edge-colored graph is rainbow if no two edges share the same color. A proper $mK_3$ is a vertex disjoint union of $m$ rainbow…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Jürgen Kritschgau , tahda queer , Cyrus Young , Wohua Zhou

It is well-known that every $n$-vertex planar graph with minimum degree 3 has a matching of size at least $\frac{n}{3}$. But all proofs of this use the Tutte-Berge-formula for the size of a maximum matching. Hence these proofs are not…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Therese Biedl

A well-known conjecture, often attributed to Ryser, states that the cover number of an $r$-partite $r$-uniform hypergraph is at most $r - 1$ times larger than its matching number. Despite considerable effort, particularly in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Anurag Bishnoi , Shagnik Das , Patrick Morris , Tibor Szabó

Motivated by the study of a variant of sunflowers, Alon and Holzman recently introduced focal-free hypergraphs. In this paper, we show that there is an interesting connection between the maximum size of focal-free hypergraphs and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-01 Xinqi Huang , Chong Shangguan , Xiande Zhang , Yuhao Zhao

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 $rc(G)$, is the smallest number of colors that are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-27 Xueliang Li , Mengmeng Liu , Ingo Schiermeyer

In 1973 P. Erd\H{o}s and L. Lov\'asz noticed that any hypergraph whose edges are pairwise intersecting has chromatic number 2 or 3. In the first case, such hypergraph may have any number of edges. However, Erd\H{o}s and Lov\'asz proved that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-11 D. D. Cherkashin , A. B. Kulikov , A. M. Raigorodskii

We consider the maximum chromatic number of hypergraphs consisting of cliques that have pairwise small intersections. Designs of the appropriate parameters produce optimal constructions, but these are known to exist only when the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-12 Dhruv Mubayi , Jacques Verstraete