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Partitioning Two-Coloured Complete Graphs into Two Monochromatic Cycles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1998

TOMASZ ŁUCZAK
Affiliation:
Department of Discrete Mathematics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznán, Poland, and Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA (e-mail: tomasz@amu.edu.pl)
VOJTĚCH RÖDL
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA (e-mail: rodl@mathcs.emory.edu)
ENDRE SZEMERÉDI
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA (e-mail: szemered@cs.rutgers.edu)

Abstract

We prove that there exists n0, such that, for every n[ges ]n0 and every 2-colouring of the edges of the complete graph Kn, one can find two vertex-disjoint monochromatic cycles of different colours which cover all vertices of Kn.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
1998 Cambridge University Press

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