An electrical‐biased or mechanical‐loaded scanning probe written on the ferroelectric surface can generate programmable domain nanopatterns for ultra‐scaled and reconfigurable nanoscale electronics. Fabricating ferroelectric domain patterns by direct‐writing as quickly as possible is highly desirable for high response rate devices. Using monolayer
We show that the threshold for having a rainbow copy of a power of a Hamilton cycle in a randomly edge colored copy of is within a constant factor of the uncolored threshold. Our proof requires times the minimum number of colors.
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- 10472915
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- Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
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- Journal Name:
- Journal of Graph Theory
- ISSN:
- 0364-9024
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- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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