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another chromatic problem from 239

Source: 239 2015 J5

May 15, 2020
graph theorycombinatoricsedge coloring

Problem Statement

Edges of a complete graph with 2m2m vertices are properly colored with 2māˆ’12m-1 colors. It turned out that for any two colors all the edges colored in one of these two colors can be described as union of several 44-cycles. Prove that mm is a power of 22.