Long rainbow path in properly edge-colored complete graphs
Combinatorics
2015-03-17 v1
Abstract
Let be an edge-colored graph. A rainbow (heterochromatic, or multicolored) path of is such a path in which no two edges have the same color. Let the color degree of a vertex be the number of different colors that are used on the edges incident to , and denote it to be . It was shown that if for every vertex of , then has a rainbow path of length at least . In the present paper, we consider the properly edge-colored complete graph only and improve the lower bound of the length of the longest rainbow path by showing that if , there must have a rainbow path of length no less than .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1503.04516,
title = {Long rainbow path in properly edge-colored complete graphs},
author = {He Chen and Xueliang Li},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.04516},
year = {2015}
}
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12 pages