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Anti-Ramsey Multiplicities

Combinatorics 2018-03-29 v2

Abstract

The Ramsey multiplicity constant of a graph HH is the minimum proportion of copies of HH in the complete graph which are monochromatic under an edge-coloring of KnK_n as nn goes to infinity. Graphs for which this minimum is asymptotically achieved by taking a random coloring are called {\em common}, and common graphs have been studied extensively, leading to the Burr-Rosta conjecture and Sidorenko's conjecture. Erd\H{o}s and S\'os asked what the maximum number of rainbow triangles is in a 33-coloring of the edge set of KnK_n, a rainbow version of the Ramsey multiplicity question. A graph HH is called rr-anti-common if the maximum proportion of rainbow copies of HH in any rr-coloring of E(Kn)E(K_n) is asymptotically achieved by taking a random coloring. In this paper, we investigate anti-Ramsey multiplicity for several families of graphs. We determine classes of graphs which are either anti-common or not. Some of these classes follow the same behavior as the monochromatic case, but some of them do not. In particular the rainbow equivalent of Sidorenko's conjecture, that all bipartite graphs are anti-common, is false.

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@article{arxiv.1801.00474,
  title  = {Anti-Ramsey Multiplicities},
  author = {Jessica De Silva and Xiang Si and Michael Tait and Yunus Tunçbilek and Ruifan Yang and Michael Young},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.00474},
  year   = {2018}
}

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14 pages, 2 figures

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