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Entropy Transference for Rainbow-$H$-Free Colourings of Random Graphs

Combinatorics 2026-08-05 v1

Abstract

Let HH be a fixed graph with q=e(H)3q=e(H)\ge3 and containing two adjacent edges, and let q\ell\ge q be fixed. We establish an entropy-transference principle for rainbow-HH-free edge-colourings of the binomial random graph at the natural scale p=n1/m2(H)p=n^{-1/m_2(H)}. Below a sufficiently small constant multiple of this scale, almost all host edges may be coloured freely; above a sufficiently large constant multiple, the exponential counting rate is governed exactly by a deterministic template-entropy optimisation on complete graphs. An exact Hall-palette inequality evaluates this rate throughout the universal range q(q1)q/(q2)q\le\ell\le(q-1)^{q/(q-2)}, where the dense-side base is q1q-1, and a robust form yields counting stability below the endpoint. For arbitrary fixed \ell, deletion-profile bounds determine the first-order many-colour behaviour and characterise when the (q1)(q-1)-colour rate persists for every fixed number of colours. This extends the random Gallai-colouring transition from triangles to every fixed non-matching graph and provides a general mechanism for transferring dense template entropy to sparse random hosts.

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@article{arxiv.2608.04845,
  title  = {Entropy Transference for Rainbow-$H$-Free Colourings of Random Graphs},
  author = {Mengyu Cao and Mei Lu and Haixiang Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.04845},
  year   = {2026}
}