English

Finding unavoidable colorful patterns in multicolored graphs

Combinatorics 2020-10-21 v3

Abstract

We provide multicolored and infinite generalizations for a Ramsey-type problem raised by Bollob\'as, concerning colorings of KnK_n where each color is well-represented. Let χ\chi be a coloring of the edges of a complete graph on nn vertices into rr colors. We call χ\chi ε\varepsilon-balanced if all color classes have ε\varepsilon fraction of the edges. Fix some graph HH, together with an rr-coloring of its edges. Consider the smallest natural number Rεr(H)R_\varepsilon^r(H) such that for all nRεr(H)n\geq R_\varepsilon^r(H), all ε\varepsilon-balanced colorings χ\chi of KnK_n contain a subgraph isomorphic to HH in its coloring. Bollob\'as conjectured a simple characterization of HH for which Rε2(H)R_\varepsilon^2(H) is finite, which was later proved by Cutler and Mont\'agh. Here, we obtain a characterization for arbitrary values of rr, as well as asymptotically tight bounds. We also discuss generalizations to graphs defined on perfect Polish spaces, where the corresponding notion of balancedness is each color class being non-meagre.

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@article{arxiv.1807.02780,
  title  = {Finding unavoidable colorful patterns in multicolored graphs},
  author = {Matthew Bowen and Ander Lamaison and Alp Müyesser},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.02780},
  year   = {2020}
}
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