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Graphs without rainbow cliques of orders four and five

Combinatorics 2023-06-22 v1

Abstract

Let Gnk={G1,G2,,Gk}\mathcal{G}_n^k=\{G_1,G_2,\ldots,G_k\} be a multiset of graphs on vertex set [n][n] and let FF be a fixed graph with edge set F={e1,e2,,em}F=\{e_1, e_2,\ldots, e_m\} and kmk\ge m. We say Gnk{\mathcal{G}_n^k} is rainbow FF-free if there is no {i1,i2,,im}[k]\{i_1, i_2,\ldots, i_{m}\}\subseteq[k] satisfying ejGije_j\in G_{i_j} for every j[m]j\in[m]. Let \exk(n,F)\ex_k(n,F) be the maximum i=1kGi\sum_{i=1}^{k}|G_i| among all the rainbow FF-free multisets Gnk{\mathcal{G}_n^k}. Keevash, Saks, Sudakov, and Verstra\"ete (2004) determined the exact value of \exk(n,Kr)\ex_k(n, K_r) when nn is sufficiently large and proposed the conjecture that the results remain true when nCr2n\ge Cr^2 for some constant CC. Recently, Frankl (2022) confirmed the conjecture for r=3r=3 and all possible values of nn. In this paper, we determine the exact value of \exk(n,Kr)\ex_k(n, K_r) for nr1n\ge r-1 when r=4r=4 and 55, i.e. the conjecture of Keevash, Saks, Sudakov, and Verstra\"ete is true for r{4,5}r\in\{4,5\}.

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@article{arxiv.2306.12222,
  title  = {Graphs without rainbow cliques of orders four and five},
  author = {Yue Ma and Xinmin Hou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.12222},
  year   = {2023}
}