Title
Partitioning two-coloured complete multipartite graphs into monochromatic paths and cycles: SCHAUDT and STEIN
Abstract
We show that any complete k-partite graph G on n vertices, with k >= 3, whose edges are two-coloured, can be covered with two vertex-disjoint monochromatic paths of distinct colours, given that the largest partition class of G contains at most n/2 vertices. This extends known results for complete and complete bipartite graphs. Secondly, we show that in the same situation, all but o(n) vertices of the graph can be covered with two vertex-disjoint monochromatic cycles of distinct colours, if colourings close to a split colouring are excluded. From this we derive that the whole graph, if large enough, may be covered with 14 vertex-disjoint monochromatic cycles.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1002/jgt.22424
JOURNAL OF GRAPH THEORY
Keywords
DocType
Volume
monochromatic cycle partition,monochromatic path partition,two-coloured graph
Journal
91
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0364-9024
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
8
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Oliver Schaudt19521.74
maya stein28115.65