The $(k,\ell)$-rainbow index for complete bipartite and multipartite graphs

A tree in an edge-colored graph $G$ is said to be a rainbow tree if no two edges on the tree share the same color. Given two positive integers $k$, $\ell$ with $k\geq 3$, the \emph{$(k,\ell)$-rainbow index} $rx_{k,\ell}(G)$ of $G$ is the minimum number of colors needed in an edge-coloring of $G$ suc...

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Main Authors Cai, Qingqiong, Li, Xueliang, Song, Jiangli
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 10.10.2013
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Mathematics - Combinatorics
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Summary:A tree in an edge-colored graph $G$ is said to be a rainbow tree if no two edges on the tree share the same color. Given two positive integers $k$, $\ell$ with $k\geq 3$, the \emph{$(k,\ell)$-rainbow index} $rx_{k,\ell}(G)$ of $G$ is the minimum number of colors needed in an edge-coloring of $G$ such that for any set $S$ of $k$ vertices of $G$, there exist $\ell$ internally disjoint rainbow trees connecting $S$. This concept was introduced by Chartrand et al., and there have been very few results about it. In this paper, we investigate the $(k,\ell)$-rainbow index for complete bipartite graphs and complete multipartite graphs. Some asymptotic values of their $(k,\ell)$-rainbow index are obtained.
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1310.2783