Monochromatic cycle partitions in random graphs

ErdH{o}s, Gyarfas and Pyber showed that every $r$-edge-coloured complete graph $K_n$ can be covered by $25 r^2 log r$ vertex-disjoint monochromatic cycles (independent of $n$). Here, we extend their result to the setting of binomial random graphs. That is, we show that if $p = p(n) = Omega(n^{-1/(2r)})$, then with high probability any $r$-edge-coloured $G(n,p)$ can be covered by at most $1000 r^4 log r $ vertex-disjoint monochromatic cycles. This answers a question of Korandi, Mousset, Nenadov, v{S}kori{c} and Sudakov.