Let be positive integers. Given points and edges that connect them are colored with colors. is the maximum number of angles, whose sides are colored with different colors. Prove that
Solution
We are going to give a construction of coloring, whose number of angles with different colored sides is greater than .
Case I. Let be an odd number. Let be subsets of such that , for , and .
Let us color the edges between and with color , and color the edges between and with color .
Case II. Let be an even number.
Lemma. If is even, we can color a complete graph on points with colors, so that edges with a general vertex have different colors.
If we color the edges between and with the color given by the lemma, we'll have the construction we desired.
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