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Maximum packings in graphs forbidding given rainbow cycles

Combinatorics 2026-03-27 v3

Abstract

Motivated by the Ruzsa-Szemer\'{e}di problem, Imolay, Karl, Nagy, and V\'{a}li studied a variant of Tur\'{a}n number exF(n,G)ex_F(n,G) (called the FF-multicolor Tur\'{a}n number of GG), defined as the maximum number of edge-disjoint copies of FF on nn-vertex set such that there is no copies of GG whose edges come from distinct copies of FF. They proved that if there is no homomorphism from GG to FF, then n2/v(F)2+o(n2)exF(n,G)ex(n,G)/e(F)+o(n2)n^2/v(F)^2+o(n^2)\leq ex_F(n,G)\leq ex(n,G)/e(F)+o(n^2), and otherwise exF(n,G)=o(n2)ex_F(n,G) = o(n^2). The quantity exF(n,G)ex_F(n,G) asymptotically equals the maximum size of an FF-packing in an nn-vertex GG-free graph, and attains the upper bound ex(n,G)/e(F)+o(n2)ex(n,G)/e(F)+o(n^2) if and only if χ(G)>χ(F)\chi(G) > \chi(F). In this paper, we provide conditions under which exF(n,G)ex_F(n,G) does not achieve the lower bound n2/v(F)2+o(n2)n^2/v(F)^2 + o(n^2), and describe additional graph pairs that attain this lower bound via graph blow-ups. Especially, we proved that exCk(s)(n,Ck2)=n2/(sk)2+o(n2)ex_{C_k(s)}(n,C_{k-2})=n^2/(sk)^2+o(n^2) for any k5k\geq 5. For degenerate cases, we show that if χ(F)=3\chi(F) = 3 and GG and FF share the same odd girth, then exF(n,G)ex_F(n,G) satisfies the (6,3)(6,3)-type bound n2o(1)n^{2-o(1)}, generalizing a result of Kov\'acs and Nagy. We also prove that exC2k+1(n,C2+1)=O(n1+1/(k+1))ex_{C_{2k+1}}(n,C_{2\ell+1})=O(n^{1+1/(\ell-k+1)}) for any integers k,k,\ell with >k\ell>k, extending a result of F\"{u}redi and \"{O}zkahya. Additionally, we establish exC4(n,C4)=2n3/2/8+O(n)ex_{C_4}(n,C_4)=\sqrt{2}n^{3/2}/8+O(n).

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@article{arxiv.2603.21260,
  title  = {Maximum packings in graphs forbidding given rainbow cycles},
  author = {Ping Li and Yang Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.21260},
  year   = {2026}
}

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18 pages, 3 figures

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