Scott–White multicolour pancyclicity conjecture

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Let n≥3n\geq 3, let kk be an integer, and let GG be a graph of order nn with minimum degree

δ(G)≥(1−12k)n.\delta(G)\geq\left(1-\frac{1}{2^k}\right)n.

A kk-edge colouring is a decomposition

E(G)=⋃i=1kE(Gi),E(G)=\bigcup_{i=1}^kE(G_i),

where each GiG_i is a spanning colour class. Scott–White's multicolour conjecture. Either, for every

ℓ∈[min⁡{2k,3},⌈12k−1n⌉],\ell\in\left[\min\{2^k,3\},\left\lceil\frac{1}{2^{k-1}}n\right\rceil\right],

there is some 1≤i≤k1\leq i\leq k such that GiG_i contains CℓC_\ell, or n=2kpn=2^kp, GG is the complete 2k2^k-partite graph with classes of order pp, and the colouring is a kk-bipartite kk-edge colouring.

This conjecture extends the one-colour case of Bondy's theorem and the paper's two-colour result. The supplied text gives no resolution beyond noting these special cases, so its general status remains open.

References

Primary source

Alex Scott and Matthew White, “Monochromatic cycles and the monochromatic circumference in 2-coloured graphs”, arXiv:1107.5177 (2011).

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