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Long rainbow path in properly edge-colored complete graphs

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Let $G$ be an edge-colored graph. A rainbow (heterochromatic, or multicolored) path of $G$ is such a path in which no two edges have the same color. Let the color degree of a vertex $v$ be the number of different colors that are used on the edges incident to $v$, and denote it to be $d^c(v)$. It was shown that if $d^c(v)\geq k$ for every vertex $v$ of $G$, then $G$ has a rainbow path of length at least $\min\{\lceil\frac{2k+1}{3}\rceil,k-1\}$. In the present paper, we consider the properly edge-colored complete graph $K_n$ only and improve the lower bound of the length of the longest rainbow path by showing that if $n\geq 20$, there must have a rainbow path of length no less than $\displaystyle \frac{3}{4}n-\frac{1}{4}\sqrt{\frac{n}{2}-\frac{39}{11}}-\frac{11}{16}$.

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A proof of Andersen's rainbow path conjecture for large $n$

math.CO · 2026-08-06 · conditional · novelty 8.0

For all sufficiently large n, every properly edge-coloured n-vertex complete graph has a rainbow path on n-1 vertices, resolving Andersen's conjecture and its Latin-square analogue for large n.

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  • A proof of Andersen's rainbow path conjecture for large $n$ math.CO · 2026-08-06 · conditional · none · ref 14 · internal anchor

    For all sufficiently large n, every properly edge-coloured n-vertex complete graph has a rainbow path on n-1 vertices, resolving Andersen's conjecture and its Latin-square analogue for large n.