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Long rainbow path in properly edge-colored complete graphs

Combinatorics 2015-03-17 v1

Abstract

Let GG be an edge-colored graph. A rainbow (heterochromatic, or multicolored) path of GG is such a path in which no two edges have the same color. Let the color degree of a vertex vv be the number of different colors that are used on the edges incident to vv, and denote it to be dc(v)d^c(v). It was shown that if dc(v)kd^c(v)\geq k for every vertex vv of GG, then GG has a rainbow path of length at least min{2k+13,k1}\min\{\lceil\frac{2k+1}{3}\rceil,k-1\}. In the present paper, we consider the properly edge-colored complete graph KnK_n only and improve the lower bound of the length of the longest rainbow path by showing that if n20n\geq 20, there must have a rainbow path of length no less than 34n14n239111116\displaystyle \frac{3}{4}n-\frac{1}{4}\sqrt{\frac{n}{2}-\frac{39}{11}}-\frac{11}{16}.

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@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

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