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Anti-Ramsey number of edge-disjoint rainbow spanning trees

Combinatorics 2019-11-19 v3

Abstract

An edge-colored graph GG is called rainbow if every edge of GG receives a different color. The anti-Ramsey number of tt edge-disjoint rainbow spanning trees, denoted by r(n,t)r(n,t), is defined as the maximum number of colors in an edge-coloring of KnK_n containing no tt edge-disjoint rainbow spanning trees. Jahanbekam and West [J. Graph Theory, 2014] conjectured that for any fixed tt, r(n,t)=(n22)+tr(n,t)=\binom{n-2}{2}+t whenever n2t+26n\geq 2t+2 \geq 6. In this paper, we prove this conjecture. We also determine r(n,t)r(n,t) when n=2t+1n = 2t+1. Together with previous results, this gives the anti-Ramsey number of tt edge-disjoint rainbow spanning trees for all values of nn and tt.

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@article{arxiv.1802.08918,
  title  = {Anti-Ramsey number of edge-disjoint rainbow spanning trees},
  author = {Linyuan Lu and Zhiyu Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.08918},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

17 pages, fixed an error in the proof of Theorem 3 using Matroid methods