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Monochromatic paths in $2$-edge coloured graphs and hypergraphs

Combinatorics 2023-01-27 v3

Abstract

We answer a question of Gy\'arf\'as and S\'ark\"ozy from 2013 by showing that every 2-edge-coloured complete 3-uniform hypergraph can be partitioned into two monochromatic tight paths of different colours. We also give a lower bound for the number of tight paths needed to partition any 2-edge-coloured complete r-partite r-uniform hypergraph. Finally, we show that any 2-edge-coloured complete bipartite graph has a partition into a monochromatic cycle and a monochromatic path, of different colours, unless the colouring is a split colouring.

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@article{arxiv.2204.12464,
  title  = {Monochromatic paths in $2$-edge coloured graphs and hypergraphs},
  author = {Maya Stein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.12464},
  year   = {2023}
}
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