Graphs with rainbow connection number two

Arnfried Kemnitz; Ingo Schiermeyer

Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory (2011)

  • Volume: 31, Issue: 2, page 313-320
  • ISSN: 2083-5892

Abstract

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An edge-coloured graph G is rainbow connected if any two vertices are connected by a path whose edges have distinct colours. The rainbow connection number of a connected graph G, denoted rc(G), is the smallest number of colours that are needed in order to make G rainbow connected. In this paper we prove that rc(G) = 2 for every connected graph G of order n and size m, where n - 1 2 + 1 ≤ m ≤ n 2 - 1 . We also characterize graphs with rainbow connection number two and large clique number.

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Arnfried Kemnitz, and Ingo Schiermeyer. "Graphs with rainbow connection number two." Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory 31.2 (2011): 313-320. <http://eudml.org/doc/271041>.

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