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We investigate Hamilton cycles in edge-colored graphs with \( r \) colors, focusing on the notion of color-bias (discrepancy), the maximum deviation from uniform color frequencies along a cycle. Foundational work by Balogh, Csaba, Jing, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Wenchong Chen , Mingyuan Rong , Zixiang Xu

In this paper, we initiate the study of discrepancy questions for combinatorial designs. Specifically, we show that, for every fixed $r\ge 3$ and $n\equiv 1,3 \pmod{6}$, any $r$-colouring of the triples on $[n]$ admits a Steiner triple…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Lior Gishboliner , Stefan Glock , Amedeo Sgueglia

Aharoni and Berger conjectured that every bipartite graph which is the union of n matchings of size n + 1 contains a rainbow matching of size n. This conjecture is a generalization of several old conjectures of Ryser, Brualdi, and Stein…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-22 Alexey Pokrovskiy

In this paper, we enumerate the pairs of permutations that are long cycles and whose product has a given cycle-type. Our main result is a simple relation concerning the desired numbers for a few related cycle-types. The relation refines a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Ricky X. F. Chen

We show that for any positive integer $r$ there exists an integer $k$ and a $k$-colouring of the edges of $K_{2^{k}+1}$ with no monochromatic odd cycle of length less than $r$. This makes progress on a problem of Erd\H{o}s and Graham and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-17 A. Nicholas Day , J. Robert Johnson

A subgraph of an edge-coloured graph is called rainbow if all its edges have distinct colours. Our main result implies that, given any optimal colouring of a sufficiently large complete graph $K_{2n}$, there exists a decomposition of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-09 Stefan Glock , Daniela Kühn , Richard Montgomery , Deryk Osthus

The rainbow number ${\rm rb}(G, H)$ is the minimum number of colors $k$ for which any edge-coloring of $G$ with at least $k$ colors guarantees a rainbow subgraph isomorphic to $H$. The rainbow number has many applications in diverse fields…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Mengyao Dai , Xin Zhang

An edge-colored graph $G$ is said to be rainbow connected if between each pair of vertices there exists a path which uses each color at most once. The rainbow connection number, denoted by $rc(G)$, is the minimum number of colors needed to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-10-14 Eduard Eiben , Robert Ganian , Juho Lauri

We consider two related problems arising from a question of R. Graham on quasirandom phenomena in permutation patterns. A ``pattern'' in a permutation $\sigma$ is the order type of the restriction of $\sigma : [n] \to [n]$ to a subset $S…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-01-29 Joshua Cooper , Andrew Petrarca

A cycle in an edge-colored graph is said to be rainbow if no two of its edges have the same color. For a complete, infinite, edge-colored graph $G$, define $\mathfrak{S}(G)=\{n\ge 2\;|\;\text{no $n$-cycle of $G$ is rainbow}\}$. Then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-21 Petr Vojtěchovský

Drisko proved that $2n-1$ matchings of size $n$ in a bipartite graph have a rainbow matching of size $n$. For general graphs it is conjectured that $2n$ matchings suffice for this purpose (and that $2n-1$ matchings suffice when $n$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-17 Ron Aharoni , Joseph Briggs , Jinha Kim , Minki Kim

For integers $n\ge 0$, an iterated triangulation $Tr(n)$ is defined recursively as follows: $Tr(0)$ is the plane triangulation on three vertices and, for $n\ge 1$, $Tr(n)$ is the plane triangulation obtained from the plane triangulation…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Jie Ma , Tianyun Tang , Xingxing Yu

Given a graph $H$, we say that a graph $G$ is properly rainbow $H$-saturated if: (1) There is a proper edge colouring of $G$ containing no rainbow copy of $H$; (2) For every $e \notin E(G)$, every proper edge colouring of $G+e$ contains a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Andrew Lane , Natasha Morrison

We develop formulas that define permutahedral commutation coherence relations of all orders. To illustrate the result geometrically, we begin by defining a rigid transformation of the $(n+1)$-permutahedron into a $n$-cube of dimensions $1…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-02 Astra Kolomatskaia

Let $n, k, m$ be positive integers with $n\gg m\gg k$, and let $\mathcal{A}$ be the set of graphs $G$ of order at least 3 such that there is a $k$-connected monochromatic subgraph of order at least $n-f(G,k,m)$ in any rainbow $G$-free…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Xihe Li , Ligong Wang

For an edge-colored graph, a subgraph is called rainbow if all its edges have distinct colors. We show that if $G$ is an edge-colored graph of order $n$ and size $m$ using $c$ colors on its edges, and $m+c\geq \binom{n+1}{2}+k-1$ for a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-12 Stefan Ehard , Elena Mohr

A permutation P on {1,..,N} is a_fast_forward_permutation_ if for each m the computational complexity of evaluating P^m(x)$ is small independently of m and x. Naor and Reingold constructed fast forward pseudorandom cycluses and involutions.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-11-02 Boaz Tsaban

LDPC codes constructed from permutation matrices have recently attracted the interest of many researchers. A crucial point when dealing with such codes is trying to avoid cycles of short length in the associated Tanner graph, i.e. obtaining…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Julia Lieb , Simran Tinani

A conjecture of the first two authors is that $n$ matchings of size $n$ in any graph have a rainbow matching of size $n-1$. We prove a lower bound of $\frac{2}{3}n-1$, improving on the trivial $\frac{1}{2}n$, and an analogous result for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-08 Ron Aharoni , Eli Berger , Maria Chudnovsky , Shira Zerbib

Let $\mathcal{G}=\{G_1,\ldots,G_n \}$ be a family of graphs of order $n$ with the same vertex set. A rainbow Hamiltonian cycle in $\mathcal{G}$ is a cycle that visits each vertex precisely once such that any two edges belong to different…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Yuke Zhang , Edwin R. van Dam