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 CDAM Research Report, LSE-CDAM-2007-18

July 2007


Covering two-edge-coloured complete graphs with two disjoint monochromatic cycles

Peter Allen

In 1998 Łuczak, Rödl and Szemerédi proved, by means of the Regularity Lemma, that there exists n0 such that, for any n ≥ n0 and two-edge-colouring of Kn, there exists a pair of vertex disjoint monochromatic cycles of opposite colours covering the vertices of Kn. In this paper we make use of an alternative method of finding useful structure in a graph, leading to a proof of the same result with a much smaller value of n0. The proof gives a polynomial time algorithm for finding the two cycles.

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