Monochromatic cycles and monochromatic paths in arc-colored digraphs

We call the digraph D an m-colored digraph if the arcs of D are colored with m colors. A path (or a cycle) is called monochromatic if all of its arcs are colored alike. A cycle is called a quasi-monochromatic cycle if with at most one exception all of its arcs are colored alike. A subdigraph H in D is called rainbow if all its arcs have different colors. A set N ⊆ V(D) is said to be a kernel by monochromatic paths if it satisfies the following two conditions: (i) for every pair of different vertices u,v ∈ N there is no monochromatic path between them and; (ii) for every vertex x ∈ V(D)-N there is a vertex y ∈ N such that there is an xy-monochromatic path. The closure of D, denoted by ℭ(D), is the m-colored multidigraph defined as follows: V(ℭ(D)) = V(D), A(ℭ(D)) = A(D)∪{(u,v) with color i | there exists a uv-monochromatic path colored i contained in D}. Notice that for any digraph D, ℭ (ℭ(D)) ≅ ℭ(D) and D has a kernel by monochromatic paths if and only if ℭ(D) has a kernel. Let D be a finite m-colored digraph. Suppose that there is a partition C = C₁ ∪ C₂ of the set of colors of D such that every cycle in the subdigraph ${\displaystyle D\left[C_i\right]}$ spanned by the arcs with colors in ${\displaystyle C_i}$ is monochromatic. We show that if ℭ(D) does not contain neither rainbow triangles nor rainbow P₃ involving colors of both C₁ and C₂, then D has a kernel by monochromatic paths. This result is a wide extension of the original result by Sands, Sauer and Woodrow that asserts: Every 2-colored digraph has a kernel by monochromatic paths (since in this case there are no rainbow triangles in ℭ(D)).