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On monochromatic paths in m-coloured tournaments. (English) Zbl 0654.05033
Suppose the arcs of a tournament $$T_ n$$ are coloured with m colours in such a way that no subtournament $$T_ 3$$ has its arcs coloured with 3 distinct colours. The author shows that such a tournament $$T_ n$$ must contain a vertex u that can be reached by a monochromatic path from every other vertex v.
Reviewer: J.W.Moon

##### MSC:
 05C15 Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs 05C20 Directed graphs (digraphs), tournaments 05C38 Paths and cycles
##### Keywords:
arc colouring; tournament; monochromatic path
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##### References:
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