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We prove that every family of (not necessarily distinct) odd cycles $O_1, \dots, O_{2\lceil n/2 \rceil-1}$ in the complete graph $K_n$ on $n$ vertices has a rainbow odd cycle (that is, a set of edges from distinct $O_i$'s, forming an odd…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-13 Ron Aharoni , Joseph Briggs , Ron Holzman , Zilin Jiang

A rainbow matching in an edge-coloured graph is a matching such that its edges have distinct colours. We show that every properly edge-coloured graph $G$ with $|G| \ge (9\delta(G) -5)/2$ has a rainbow matching of size $\delta(G)$, improving…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-29 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 more than two hundred years to the work of Euler on Latin squares. Since then rainbow structures have…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Richard Montgomery , Alexey Pokrovskiy , Benny Sudakov

Let $G$ be an edge-colored graph. A heterochromatic cycle of $G$ is one in which every two edges have different colors. For a vertex $v\in V(G)$, let $CN(v)$ denote the set of colors which are assigned to the edges incident to $v$. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-01-19 Bo Ning , Shenggui Zhang

The arboricity of a graph G is the minimum number of colours needed to colour the edges of G so that every cycle gets at least two colours. Given a positive integer p, we define the generalized p-arboricity Arb_p(G) of a graph G as the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-09 Jaroslav Nesetril , Patrice Ossona De Mendez , Xuding Zhu

A path in a vertex-colored graph $G$ is \emph{vertex rainbow} if all of its internal vertices have a distinct color. The graph $G$ is said to be \emph{rainbow vertex connected} if there is a vertex rainbow path between every pair of its…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-12-23 Juho Lauri

A proper edge coloring of a graph without any bichromatic cycles is said to be an acyclic edge coloring of the graph. The acyclic chromatic index of a graph $G$ denoted by $a'(G)$, is the minimum integer $k$ such that $G$ has an acyclic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Nevil Anto , Manu Basavaraju , Shashanka Kulamarva

Let $G$ be a simple $n$-vertex graph and $c$ be a colouring of $E(G)$ with $n$ colours, where each colour class has size at least $2$. We prove that $(G,c)$ contains a rainbow cycle of length at most $\lceil \frac{n}{2} \rceil$, which is…

Given a family of graphs $G_1,\dots,G_{n}$ on the same vertex set $[n]$, a rainbow Hamilton cycle is a Hamilton cycle on $[n]$ such that each $G_c$ contributes exactly one edge. We prove that if $G_1,\dots,G_{n}$ are independent samples of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Asaf Ferber , Jie Han , Dingjia Mao

A tree $T$, in an edge-colored graph $G$, is called {\em a rainbow tree} if no two edges of $T$ are assigned the same color. A {\em $k$-rainbow coloring}of $G$ is an edge coloring of $G$ having the property that for every set $S$ of $k$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-05 Tingting Liu , Yumei Hu

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 $G$ is {\it rainbow vertex-connected} if any pair of vertices in $G$ are connected by a path whose internal vertices have distinct colors, which was introduced by Krivelevich and Yuster. The {\it rainbow…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-11 Lily Chen , Xueliang Li , Huishu Lian

Let $G$ be an edge-colored graph. A heterochromatic (rainbow, or multicolored) path of $G$ is such a path in which no two edges have the same color. Let $d^c(v)$ denote the color degree and $CN(v)$ denote the color neighborhood of a vertex…

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

A {\it rainbow matching} in an edge-colored graph is a matching in which all the edges have distinct colors. Wang asked if there is a function f(\delta) such that a properly edge-colored graph G with minimum degree \delta and order at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-15 Jennifer Diemunsch , Michael Ferrara , Casey Moffatt , Florian Pfender , Paul S. Wenger

Let $c$ be an edge-colouring of a graph $G$ such that for every vertex $v$ there are at least $d \ge 2$ different colours on edges incident to $v$. We prove that $G$ contains a properly coloured path of length 2d or a properly coloured…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-21 Allan Lo

In an edge-colored graph $(G,c)$, let $d^c(v)$ denote the number of colors on the edges incident with a vertex $v$ of $G$ and $\delta^c(G)$ denote the minimum value of $d^c(v)$ over all vertices $v\in V(G)$. A cycle of $(G,c)$ is called…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-29 Xiaozheng Chen , Xueliang Li

A tree $T$ in an edge-colored graph is a \emph{proper tree} if any two adjacent edges of $T$ are colored with different colors. Let $G$ be a graph of order $n$ and $k$ be a fixed integer with $2\leq k\leq n$. For a vertex set $S\subseteq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-15 Lin Chen , Xueliang Li , Jinfeng Liu

A cycle is $2$-colored if its edges are properly colored by two distinct colors. A $(d,s)$-edge colorable graph $G$ is a $d$-regular graph that admits a proper $d$-edge coloring in which every edge of $G$ is in at least $s-1$ $2$-colored…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Lan Anh Pham

The rainbow Tur\'an number $\mathrm{ex}^*(n,H)$ of a graph $H$ is the maximum possible number of edges in a properly edge-coloured $n$-vertex graph with no rainbow subgraph isomorphic to $H$. We prove that for any integer $k\geq 2$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Oliver Janzer

A proper edge coloring of a graph $G$ is called acyclic if there is no bichromatic cycle in $G$. The acyclic chromatic index of $G$, denoted by $\chi'_a(G)$, is the least number of colors $k$ such that $G$ has an acyclic edge $k$-coloring.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Jianfeng Hou