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Forbidden rainbow subgraphs that force large monochromatic or multicolored k-connected subgraphs

Combinatorics 2019-07-04 v2

Abstract

Let n,k,mn, k, m be positive integers with nmkn\gg m\gg k, and let A\mathcal{A} be the set of graphs GG of order at least 3 such that there is a kk-connected monochromatic subgraph of order at least nf(G,k,m)n-f(G,k,m) in any rainbow GG-free coloring of KnK_n using all the mm colors. In this paper, we prove that the set A\mathcal{A} consists of precisely P6P_6, P3P4P_3\cup P_4, K2P5K_2\cup P_5, K22P3K_2\cup 2P_3, 2K2K32K_2\cup K_3, 2K2P4+2K_2\cup P^{+}_4, 3K2K1,33K_2\cup K_{1,3} and their subgraphs of order at least 3. Moreover, we show that for any graph HAH\in \mathcal{A}, if nn sufficiently larger than mm and kk, then any rainbow (P3H)(P_3\cup H)-free coloring of KnK_n using all the mm colors contains a kk-connected monochromatic subgraph of order at least cncn, where c=c(H)c=c(H) is a constant, not depending on nn, mm or kk. Furthermore, we consider a parallel problem in complete bipartite graphs. Let s,t,k,ms, t, k, m be positive integers with min{s,t}mk{\rm min}\left\{s, t\right\}\gg m\gg k and mE(H)m\geq |E(H)|, and let B\mathcal{B} be the set of bipartite graphs HH of order at least 3 such that there is a kk-connected monochromatic subgraph of order at least s+tf(H,k,m)s+t-f(H,k,m) in any rainbow HH-free coloring of Ks,tK_{s,t} using all the mm colors, where f(H,k,m)f(H,k,m) is not depending on ss or tt. We prove that the set B\mathcal{B} consists of precisely 2P32P_3, 2K2K1,32K_2\cup K_{1,3} and their subgraphs of order at least 3. Finally, we consider the large kk-connected multicolored subgraph instead of monochromatic subgraph. We show that for 1k31\leq k \leq 3 and nn sufficiently large, every Gallai-3-coloring of KnK_n contains a kk-connected subgraph of order at least nk12n-\left\lfloor\frac{k-1}{2}\right\rfloor using at most two colors. We also show that the above statement is false for k=4tk=4t, where tt is an positive integer.

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@article{arxiv.1811.06137,
  title  = {Forbidden rainbow subgraphs that force large monochromatic or multicolored k-connected subgraphs},
  author = {Xihe Li and Ligong Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.06137},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

18 pages, 4 figures

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