Gallai-Ramsey number for $K_{5}$
Abstract
Given a graph , the -colored Gallai Ramsey number is defined to be the minimum integer such that every -coloring of the edges of the complete graph on vertices contains either a rainbow triangle or a monochromatic copy of . Fox et al. [J. Fox, A. Grinshpun, and J. Pach. The Erd{\H o}s-Hajnal conjecture for rainbow triangles. J. Combin. Theory Ser. B, 111:75-125, 2015.] conjectured the value of the Gallai Ramsey numbers for complete graphs. Recently, this conjecture has been verified for the first open case, when . In this paper we attack the next case, when . Surprisingly it turns out, that the validity of the conjecture depends upon the (yet unknown) value of the Ramsey number . It is known that and conjectured that [B.D. McKay and S.P. Radziszowski. Subgraph counting identities and Ramsey numbers. J. Combin. Theory Ser. B, 69:193-209, 1997]. If , then Fox et al.'s conjecture is true and we present a complete proof. If, however, , then Fox et al.'s conjecture is false, meaning that at least one of these two conjectures must be false. For the case when , we show lower and upper bounds for the Gallai Ramsey number .
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@article{arxiv.1901.03622,
title = {Gallai-Ramsey number for $K_{5}$},
author = {Colton Magnant and Ingo Schiermeyer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.03622},
year = {2019}
}
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38 pages, 4 tables, 1 figure