Almost all optimally coloured complete graphs contain a rainbow Hamilton path

Stephen Gould; Tom Kelly; Daniela Kuhn; Deryk Osthus

doi:10.1016/j.jctb.2022.04.003

Almost all optimally coloured complete graphs contain a rainbow Hamilton path

Stephen Gould, Tom Kelly, Daniela Kuhn, Deryk Osthus

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A subgraph H of an edge-coloured graph is called rainbow if all of the edges of H have different colours. In 1989, Andersen conjectured that every proper edge-colouring of K_n admits a rainbow path of length n-2. We show that almost all optimal edge-colourings of K_nadmit both (i) a rainbow Hamilton path and (ii) a rainbow cycle using all of the colours. This result demonstrates that Andersen's Conjecture holds for almost all optimal edge-colourings of K_nand answers a recent question of Ferber, Jain, and Sudakov. Our result also has applications to the existence of transversals in random symmetric Latin squares.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	57-100
Number of pages	44
Journal	Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series B
Volume	156
Early online date	3 May 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jctb.2022.04.003
Publication status	Published - Sept 2022

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Funding Information:
This project has received partial funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 786198 , D. Kühn and D. Osthus). The research leading to these results was also partially supported by the EPSRC , grant nos. EP/N019504/1 (T. Kelly and D. Kühn) and EP/S00100X/1 (D. Osthus).

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Keywords

Andersen's conjecture
Edge-colouring
Rainbow path
Rainbow cycle
Hypergraph matchings
Distributive absorption
Latin squares

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Osthus, D. & Kuhn, D.
European Commission
1/01/19 → 30/06/24
Project: EU
Approximate Structure in Large Graphs and Hypergraphs
Osthus, D.
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council
1/01/19 → 31/12/21
Project: Research Councils
Combinatorics, Probability and Algorithms: Fellowship, Establish Career: Professor D Kuhn
Kuhn, D.
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council
1/09/16 → 31/08/21
Project: Research Councils

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Almost all optimally coloured complete graphs contain a rainbow Hamilton path

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Approximate Structure in Large Graphs and Hypergraphs

Combinatorics, Probability and Algorithms: Fellowship, Establish Career: Professor D Kuhn

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