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Bipartite and Euclidean Gallai-Ramsey Theory

Combinatorics 2024-10-11 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the following Gallai-Ramsey question: how large must a complete bipartite graph Kn1,n2K_{n_1, n_2} be before any coloring of its edges with rr colors contains either a monochromatic copy of G=Ks,tG = K_{s,t} or a rainbow copy of H=Ks,tH = K_{s,t}? We demonstrate that the answer is linear in rr, and provide more precise bounds for the specific case s=2s = 2. Furthermore, we also consider the following Euclidean Gallai-Ramsey question: given a configuration HH in Euclidean space, what is the smallest nn such that any rr-coloring of nn-dimensional Euclidean space contains a monochromatic or rainbow configuration congruent to HH? Through a natural translation between edge colorings of the complete bipartite graph Kn1,n2K_{n_1,n_2} and colorings of a subset of (n1+n2)(n_1+n_2)-dimensional Euclidean space, we prove new upper bounds on nn for some configurations which can be expressed as Cartesian products of simplices.

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@article{arxiv.2410.07634,
  title  = {Bipartite and Euclidean Gallai-Ramsey Theory},
  author = {Isabel McGuigan and Katherine Pan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.07634},
  year   = {2024}
}

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18 pages, 3 figures