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A new variant of the Erd\H{o}s-Gy\'{a}rf\'{a}s problem on $K_{5}$

Combinatorics 2023-07-12 v2

Abstract

Motivated by an extremal problem on graph-codes that links coding theory and graph theory, Alon recently proposed a question aiming to find the smallest number tt such that there is an edge coloring of KnK_{n} by tt colors with no copy of given graph HH in which every color appears an even number of times. When H=K4H=K_{4}, the question of whether no(1)n^{o(1)} colors are enough, was initially emphasized by Alon. Through modifications to the coloring functions originally designed by Mubayi, and Conlon, Fox, Lee and Sudakov, the question of K4K_{4} has already been addressed. Expanding on this line of inquiry, we further study this new variant of the generalized Ramsey problem and provide a conclusively affirmative answer to Alon's question concerning K5K_{5}.

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@article{arxiv.2306.14682,
  title  = {A new variant of the Erd\H{o}s-Gy\'{a}rf\'{a}s problem on $K_{5}$},
  author = {Gennian Ge and Zixiang Xu and Yixuan Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.14682},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Note added: Heath and Zerbib also proved the result on $K_{5}$ independently. arXiv:2307.01314