Properly colored C4→'s in arc-colored complete and complete bipartite digraphs

Mengyu Duan, Binlong Li, Shenggui Zhang

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Abstract

A subdigraph of an arc-colored digraph is called properly colored if its every consecutive arcs have distinct colors. Let D be a digraph. For a digraph H, let pc(D,H) be the minimum number such that every arc-colored digraph DC with c(D)≥pc(D,H) contains a properly colored copy of H, where c(D) is the number of colors of DC. Let Kn↔ and Km,n↔ be the digraphs obtained from the complete graph Kn and the complete bipartite graph Km,n respectively by replacing each edge uv with a pair of symmetric arcs (u,v) and (v,u); and let Ck→ be the directed cycle of length k. In this paper we determine pc(Kn↔,C4→), pc(Km,n↔,C4→) and characterize the corresponding extremal arc-colorings of digraphs.

Original languageEnglish
Article number114367
JournalDiscrete Mathematics
Volume348
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2025

Keywords

  • Arc-colored digraph
  • Color number
  • Properly colored cycle

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