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Anti-Ramsey numbers of graphs with small connected components

Combinatorics 2017-05-15 v1

Abstract

The anti-Ramsey number, AR(n,G)AR(n,G), for a graph GG and an integer nV(G)n\geq|V(G)|, is defined to be the minimal integer rr such that in any edge-colouring of KnK_n by at least rr colours there is a multicoloured copy of GG, namely, a copy of GG that each of its edges has a distinct colour. In this paper we determine, for large enough nn, AR(n,LtP2)AR(n,L\cup tP_2) and AR(n,LkP3)AR(n,L\cup kP_3) for any large enough tt and kk, and a graph LL satisfying some conditions. Consequently, we determine AR(n,G)AR(n,G), for large enough nn, where GG is P3tP2P_3\cup tP_2 for any t3t\geq 3, P4tP2P_4\cup tP_2 and C3tP2C_3\cup tP_2 for any t2t\geq 2, kP3kP_3 for any k3k\geq 3, tP2kP3tP_2\cup kP_3 for any t1t\geq 1, k2k\geq 2, and Pt+1kP3P_{t+1}\cup kP_3 for any t3t\geq 3, k1k\geq 1. Furthermore, we obtain upper and lower bounds for AR(n,G)AR(n,G), for large enough nn, where GG is Pk+1tP2P_{k+1}\cup tP_2 and CktP2C_k\cup tP_2 for any k4k\geq 4, t1t\geq 1.

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@article{arxiv.1310.4331,
  title  = {Anti-Ramsey numbers of graphs with small connected components},
  author = {Shoni Gilboa and Yehuda Roditty},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.4331},
  year   = {2017}
}