{ "id": "1612.01965", "version": "v1", "published": "2016-12-06T19:54:12.000Z", "updated": "2016-12-06T19:54:12.000Z", "title": "Packing Directed and Hamilton Cycles Online", "authors": [ "Michael Anastos", "Joseph Briggs" ], "categories": [ "math.CO" ], "abstract": "Consider a directed analogue of the random graph process on $n$ vertices, where the $n(n-1)$ edges are ordered uniformly at random and revealed one at a time. It is known that w.h.p.\\@ the first digraph in this process with both in-degree and out-degree $\\geq q$ has a $[q]$-edge-coloring with a Hamilton cycle in each color. We show that this coloring can be constructed online, where each edge must be irrevocably colored as soon as it appears. In a similar fashion, for the \\emph{undirected} random graph process, we present an online $[n]$-edge-coloring algorithm which yields w.h.p.\\@ $q$ disjoint rainbow Hamilton cycles in the first graph of the process that contains $q$ disjoint Hamilton cycles.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2016-12-06T19:54:12.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "hamilton cycles online", "random graph process", "disjoint rainbow hamilton cycles", "disjoint hamilton cycles", "first digraph" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }