On Rainbow-cycle-forbidding Edge Colorings of Finite Graphs

Publication Date

10-1-2019

Document Type

Article

Organizational Units

Mathematics

Keywords

Rainbow-cycle-forbidding, Edge-colored, Finite graphs

Abstract

It is shown that whenever the edges of a connected simple graph on n vertices are colored with n−1" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; line-height: normal; word-spacing: normal; overflow-wrap: normal; white-space: nowrap; float: none; direction: ltr; max-width: none; max-height: none; min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; border: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; position: relative;">n−1n−1 colors appearing so that no cycle in G is rainbow, there must be a monochromatic edge cut in G. From this it follows that such colorings of G can be represented, or ‘encoded,’ by full binary trees with n leaves, with vertices labeled by subsets of V(G), such that the leaf labels are singletons, the label of each non-leaf is the union of the labels of its children, and each label set induces a connected subgraph of G. It is also shown that n−1" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; line-height: normal; word-spacing: normal; overflow-wrap: normal; white-space: nowrap; float: none; direction: ltr; max-width: none; max-height: none; min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; border: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; position: relative;">n−1n−1 is the largest integer for which the main theorem holds, for each n, although for some graphs a certain strengthening of the hypothesis makes the theorem conclusion true with n−1" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; line-height: normal; word-spacing: normal; overflow-wrap: normal; white-space: nowrap; float: none; direction: ltr; max-width: none; max-height: none; min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; border: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; position: relative;">n−1n−1 replaced by n−2" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; line-height: normal; word-spacing: normal; overflow-wrap: normal; white-space: nowrap; float: none; direction: ltr; max-width: none; max-height: none; min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; border: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; position: relative;">n−2n−2.

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