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For a given graph $H$ and $n\geq 1$, let $f(n,H)$ denote the maximum number $c$ for which there is a way to color the edges of the complete graph $K_n$ with $c$ colors such that every subgraph $H$ of $K_n$ has at least two edges of the same…

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

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

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-11-15 Xiaolong Huang , Xueliang Li , Yongtang Shi

An edge-colored graph $G$ is {\em rainbow connected} if any two vertices are connected by a path whose edges have distinct colors. The {\em rainbow connection} of a connected graph $G$, denoted $rc(G)$, is the smallest number of colors that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-09-16 Sourav Chakraborty , Eldar Fischer , Arie Matsliah , Raphael Yuster

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 rainbow (geodesic) path between every pair of vertices.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-09-28 Shasha Li , Xueliang Li

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

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

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-07 Jiuying Dong , Xueliang Li

We show that if a multigraph $G$ with maximum edge-multiplicity of at most $\frac{\sqrt{n}}{\log^2 n}$, is edge-coloured by $n$ colours such that each colour class is a disjoint union of cliques with at least $2n + o(n)$ vertices, then it…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-24 David Munhá Correia , Liana Yepremyan

A properly edge-colored graph is a graph with a coloring of its edges such that no vertex is incident to two or more edges of the same color. A subgraph is called rainbow if all its edges have different colors. The problem of finding…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Benny Sudakov

An edge colored graph $G$ is rainbow edge connected if any two vertices are connected by a path whose edges have distinct colors. The rainbow connectivity of a connected graph $G$, denoted by $rc(G)$, is the smallest number of colors that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-03 Alan Frieze , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

A path in an edge-colored graph $G$ is called a rainbow path if no two edges of the path are colored the same. The minimum number of colors required to color the edges of $G$ such that every pair of vertices are connected by at least $k$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-27 Xiaolin Chen , Xueliang Li , Huishu Lian

A rainbow path in an edge coloured graph is a path in which no two edges are coloured the same. A rainbow colouring of a connected graph G is a colouring of the edges of G such that every pair of vertices in G is connected by at least one…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-04-18 L. Sunil Chandran , Deepak Rajendraprasad , Marek Tesař

An edge (vertex) coloured graph is rainbow-connected if there is a rainbow path between any two vertices, i.e. a path all of whose edges (internal vertices) carry distinct colours. Rainbow edge (vertex) connectivity of a graph $G$ is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-27 Nina Kamčev , Michael Krivelevich , Benny Sudakov

An edge-colored graph G is rainbow connected if any two vertices are connected by a path whose edges have distinct colors. The rainbow connectivity of a connected graph G, denoted rc(G), is the smallest number of colors that are needed in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-02-17 Sourav Chakraborty , Eldar Fischer , Arie Matsliah , Raphael Yuster

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

A path in an edge-colored graph $G$, where adjacent edges may have the same color, is called a rainbow path if no two edges of the path are colored the same. The rainbow connection number $rc(G)$ of $G$ is the minimum integer $i$ for which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Hengzhe Li , Xueliang Li , Sujuan Liu

A graph $G$ whose edges are coloured (not necessarily properly) contains a full rainbow matching if there is a matching $M$ that contains exactly one edge of each colour. We refute several conjectures on matchings in hypergraphs and full…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-16 Pu Gao , Reshma Ramadurai , Ian M. Wanless , Nick Wormald

An edge-colored graph $G$ is $k$-color connected if, between each pair of vertices, there exists a path using at least $k$ different colors. The $k$-color connection number of $G$, denoted by $cc_{k}(G)$, is the minimum number of colors…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-29 Hong Chang , Zhong Huang , Xueliang Li

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

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.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-10-10 Prabhanjan Ananth , Meghana Nasre , Kanthi K Sarpatwar

Given a multi-hypergraph $G$ that is edge-colored into color classes $E_1, \ldots, E_n$, a full rainbow matching is a matching of $G$ that contains exactly one edge from each color class $E_i$. One way to guarantee the existence of a full…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Ronen Wdowinski