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Long properly colored cycles in edge colored complete graphs

Combinatorics 2014-02-25 v2 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

Let KncK_{n}^{c} denote a complete graph on nn vertices whose edges are colored in an arbitrary way. Let Δmon(Knc)\Delta^{\mathrm{mon}} (K_{n}^{c}) denote the maximum number of edges of the same color incident with a vertex of KncK_{n}^{c}. A properly colored cycle (path) in KncK_{n}^{c} is a cycle (path) in which adjacent edges have distinct colors. B. Bollob\'{a}s and P. Erd\"{o}s (1976) proposed the following conjecture: if Δmon(Knc)<n2\Delta^{\mathrm{mon}} (K_{n}^{c})<\lfloor \frac{n}{2} \rfloor, then KncK_{n}^{c} contains a properly colored Hamiltonian cycle. Li, Wang and Zhou proved that if Δmon(Knc)<n2\Delta^{\mathrm{mon}} (K_{n}^{c})< \lfloor \frac{n}{2} \rfloor, then KncK_{n}^{c} contains a properly colored cycle of length at least n+23+1\lceil \frac{n+2}{3}\rceil+1. In this paper, we improve the bound to n2+2\lceil \frac{n}{2}\rceil + 2.

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@article{arxiv.1301.0450,
  title  = {Long properly colored cycles in edge colored complete graphs},
  author = {Guanghui Wang and Tao Wang and Guizhen Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.0450},
  year   = {2014}
}

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