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Counting Gallai 3-colorings of complete graphs

Authors :
Bastos, Josefran de Oliveira
Benevides, Fabricio Siqueira
Mota, Guilherme Oliveira
Sau, Ignasi
Publication Year :
2018

Abstract

An edge coloring of the n-vertex complete graph K_n is a Gallai coloring if it does not contain any rainbow triangle, that is, a triangle whose edges are colored with three distinct colors. We prove that the number of Gallai colorings of K_n with at most three colors is at most 7(n+1)*2^{n choose 2}, which improves the best known upper bound of \frac{3}{2} * (n-1)! * 2^{(n-1) choose 2} in [Discrete Mathematics, 2017].<br />Comment: 17 pages, 9 pages of appendix, 7 figures

Subjects

Subjects :
Mathematics - Combinatorics

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1805.06805
Document Type :
Working Paper