Rainbow Pancyclicity in Graph Systems

Abstract

Let $G_1,...,G_n$ be graphs on the same vertex set of size $n$, each graph with minimum degree $\delta (G_i)\ge n/2$. A recent conjecture of Aharoni asserts that there exists a rainbow Hamiltonian cycle i.e. a cycle with edge set $\{e_1,...,e_n\}$ such that $e_i\in E(G_i)$ for $1\le i\le n$. This can be viewed as a rainbow version of the well-known Dirac theorem. In this paper, we prove this conjecture asymptotically by showing that for every $\epsilon >0$, there exists an integer $N>0$, such that when $n>N$ for any graphs $G_1,...,G_n$ on the same vertex set of size $n$ with $\delta (G_i)\ge (\frac{1}{2}+\epsilon )n$, there exists a rainbow Hamiltonian cycle. Our main tool is the absorption technique. Additionally, we prove that with $\delta (G_i)\ge \frac{n+1}{2}$ for each $i$, one can find rainbow cycles of length $3,...,n-1$.

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