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Rainbow matchings in edge-colored graphs

Combinatorics 2025-11-07 v1

Abstract

Let GG be an edge-colored graph. We use e(G)e(G) and c(G)c(G) to denote the number of edges and colors in GG, respectively. A subgraph HH is called rainbow if c(H)=e(H)c(H)=e(H). Li et al. (European J. Combin., 36 (2014), 453-459) proved that every edge-colored graph on nn vertices with e(G)+c(G)n(n+1)/2e(G)+c(G) \geq n(n+1)/2 contains rainbow triangles. Later, Xu et al. (European J. Combin., 54 (2016), 193-200) generalized the previous results concerning rainbow triangles to rainbow cliques KrKr, where r4r\geq 4. In this paper, we consider the existence of rainbow matchings of size kk in general edge-colored graphs GG under the condition of e(G)+c(G)e(G)+c(G), and the condition in our result is tight.

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@article{arxiv.2511.04374,
  title  = {Rainbow matchings in edge-colored graphs},
  author = {Hongliang Lu and Zixuan Yang and Feihong Yuan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.04374},
  year   = {2025}
}
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