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Construction of Special Edge-Chromatic Graphs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

J. G. Kalbfleisch
J. G. Kalbfleisch*
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University of Waterloo
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The configuration formed by N points in general position in space, together with the lines joining them in pairs will be called an N-clique. The N-clique is coloured by assigning to each edge exactly one colour from a set of t possible colours. A theorem due to Ramsey [4] ensures the existence of a least integer M(q1, q2, …, qt) such that if N ≥ M, any such colouring of the N-clique must contain either a q1-clique entirely of colour 1, or a q2-clique of colour 2, …, or a qt-clique of colour t. Another proof of Ramsey's theorem is given by Ryser [5].

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 8 , Issue 5 , October 1965 , pp. 575 - 584
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1965

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