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Regular polygon coloring!

Source: Bulgaria 1998 Problem 6

January 25, 2015
combinatorics proposedcombinatorics

Problem Statement

The sides and diagonals of a regular nn-gon RR are colored in kk colors so that: (i) For each color aa and any two vertices AA,BB of RR , the segment ABAB is of color aa or there is a vertex CC such that ACAC and BCBC are of color aa. (ii) The sides of any triangle with vertices at vertices of RR are colored in at most two colors. Prove that k2k\leq 2.