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Solutions for two conjectures on kaleidoscopic edge-colorings

Combinatorics 2016-11-28 v1

Abstract

For an rr-regular graph GG, we define an edge-coloring cc with colors from {1,2,,\{1,2,\cdots, k}k\}, in such a way that any vertex of GG is incident to at least one edge of each color. The multiset-color cm(v)c_m(v) of a vertex vv is defined as the ordered tuple (a1,a2,,ak)(a_1,a_2,\cdots ,a_k), where ai (1ik)a_i \ (1\leq i\leq k) denotes the number of edges with color ii which are incident with vv in GG. Then this edge-coloring cc is called a {\it kk-kaleidoscopic coloring} of GG if every two distinct vertices in GG have different multiset-colors and in this way the graph GG is defined as a {\it kk-kaleidoscope}. In this paper, we determine the integer kk for a complete graph KnK_n to be a kk-kaleidoscope, and hence solve a conjecture in [P. Zhang, A Kaleidoscopic View of Graph Colorings, Springer, New York, 2016] that for any integers nn and kk with nk+36n\geq k+3 \geq 6, the complete graph KnK_n is a kk-kaleidoscope. Then, we construct an rr-regular 33-kaleidoscope of order (r12)1\binom{r-1}{2}-1 for each integer r7r\geq 7, where r3 (mod 4)r\equiv 3\ (\text{mod}\ 4), which solves another conjecture in the same book on the maximum order for rr-regular 33-kaleidoscopes.

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@article{arxiv.1611.08068,
  title  = {Solutions for two conjectures on kaleidoscopic edge-colorings},
  author = {Xueliang Li and Xiaoyu Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.08068},
  year   = {2016}
}

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