Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4656569 | Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A | 2006 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
Eroh and Oellermann defined as the smallest N such that any edge coloring of the complete bipartite graph KN,N contains either a monochromatic G1 or a multicolored G2. We restate the problem of determining in matrix form and prove estimates and exact values for several choices of the parameters. Our general bound uses Füredi's result on fractional matchings of uniform hypergraphs and we show that it is sharp if certain block designs exist. We obtain two sharp results for the case r=s=2: we prove and that the smallest n for which any edge coloring of Kλ,n contains either a monochromatic K1,λ or a multicolored K2,2 is λ2.
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