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A rainbow Dirac theorem for loose Hamilton cycles in hypergraphs

Combinatorics 2026-02-25 v2

Abstract

A meta-conjecture of Coulson, Keevash, Perarnau and Yepremyan states that above the extremal threshold for a given spanning structure in a (hyper-)graph, one can find a rainbow version of that spanning structure in any suitably bounded colouring of the host (hyper-)graph. We solve one of the most pertinent outstanding cases of this conjecture, by showing that for any 1jk11\leq j\leq k-1, if GG is a kk-uniform hypergraph above the jj-degree threshold for a loose Hamilton cycle, then any globally bounded colouring of GG contains a rainbow loose Hamilton cycle.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2501.07644,
  title  = {A rainbow Dirac theorem for loose Hamilton cycles in hypergraphs},
  author = {Amarja Kathapurkar and Patrick Morris and Guillem Perarnau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.07644},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

30 pages, 4 figures. Final version to appear in CPC

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