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Note on rainbow cycles in edge-colored graphs

Combinatorics 2020-10-23 v2

Abstract

Let GG be a graph of order nn with an edge-coloring cc, and let δc(G)\delta^c(G) denote the minimum color degree of GG. A subgraph FF of GG is called rainbow if all edges of FF have pairwise distinct colors. There have been a lot results on rainbow cycles of edge-colored graphs. In this paper, we show that (i) if δc(G)>3n34\delta^c(G)>\frac{3n-3}{4}, then every vertex of GG is contained in a rainbow triangle; (ii) δc(G)>3n4\delta^c(G)>\frac{3n}{4}, then every vertex of GG is contained in a rainbow C4C_4; and (iii) if GG is complete, n8k18n\geq 8k-18 and δc(G)>n12+k\delta^c(G)>\frac{n-1}{2}+k, then GG contains a rainbow cycle of length at least kk. Some gaps in previous publications are also found and corrected.

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@article{arxiv.2010.10767,
  title  = {Note on rainbow cycles in edge-colored graphs},
  author = {Xiaozheng Chen and Xueliang Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.10767},
  year   = {2020}
}

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11 pages, 5 figures

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