Rainbow path and color degree in edge colored graphs

zbMATH Open1300.05094arXiv1312.5067MaRDI QIDQ405138FDOQ405138

Authors: Anita Das, S. V. Subrahmanya, P. Suresh 

Publication date: 4 September 2014

Published in: The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $G$ be an edge colored graph. A {it}{rainbow path} in $G$ is a path in which all the edges are colored with distinct colors. Let $d^c(v)$ be the color degree of a vertex $v$ in $G$, i.e. the number of distinct colors present on the edges incident on the vertex $v$. Let $t$ be the maximum length of a rainbow path in $G$. Chen and Li showed that if $d^{c}geqk$, for every vertex $v$ of $G$, then $tgeqleftlceilfrac3k5ightceil+1$ (Long heterochromatic paths in edge-colored graphs, The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 12 (2005), # R33, Pages:1-33.) Unfortunately, proof by Chen and Li is very long and comes to about 23 pages in the journal version. Chen and Li states in their paper that it was conjectured by Akira Saito, that $tgeleftlceilfrac2k3ightceil$. They also states in their paper that they believe $tgek-c$ for some constant $c$. In this note, we give a short proof to show that $tgeleftlceilfrac3k5ightceil$, using an entirely different method. Our proof is only about 2 pages long. The draw-back is that our bound is less by 1, than the bound given by Chen and Li. We hope that the new approach adopted in this paper would eventually lead to the settlement of the conjectures by Saito and/or Chen and Li.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.5067

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zbMATH Keywords

rainbow pathcolor degreeedge colored graphs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs (05C15) Paths and cycles (05C38)

Cites Work

• Monochromatic and heterochromatic subgraphs in edge-colored graphs - A survey
• Long heterochromatic paths in edge-colored graphs
• Rainbow and orthogonal paths in factorizations of \(K_n\)
• On rainbow cycles in edge colored complete graphs

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