H-free-complement monochromatic path-cover conjecture

Let HH be a graph with chromatic number k+1k+1, and let GG be an tt-edge-colored graph on nn vertices such that HH is not a subgraph of the complement G\overline{G}. H-free-complement path-cover conjecture. There exists a constant c=c(H,k,t)c=c(H,k,t) such that ktkt vertex-disjoint monochromatic paths of GG cover at least

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vertices. The conjecture extends cycle- and path-partition questions from complete graphs to graphs whose complements exclude a fixed graph; the source proves special cases but leaves the general statement open.

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Jozsef Balogh, Janos Barat, Daniel Gerbner, Andras Gyarfas and GAbor N. Sarkozy, “Partitioning 2-edge-colored graphs by monochromatic paths and cycles”, arXiv:1509.05544 (2015).

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