Keevash–Mubayi–Sudakov–Verstraëte rainbow-cycle conjecture

Let GG be a properly edge-colored graph on nn vertices, meaning that no two edges incident with the same vertex have the same color. A rainbow cycle is a cycle whose edges all have distinct colors.

Keevash–Mubayi–Sudakov–Verstraëte conjecture. There is a constant CC such that every properly edge-colored nn-vertex graph with at least CnlognCn\log n edges contains a rainbow cycle.

The statement is motivated by a construction with Ω(nlogn)\Omega(n\log n) edges and is presented as the conjectured sharp order of magnitude. Its resolution is not given in the supplied text.

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Primary source

Benny Sudakov, “Restricted subgraphs of edge-colored graphs and applications”, arXiv:2412.13945 (2024).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2401.10865.

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