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Minimum degree conditions for rainbow triangles

Combinatorics 2023-05-23 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

Let G:=(G1,G2,G3)\mathbf{G}:=(G_1, G_2, G_3) be a triple of graphs on a common vertex set VV of size nn. A rainbow triangle in G\mathbf{G} is a triple of edges (e1,e2,e3)(e_1, e_2, e_3) with eiGie_i\in G_i for each ii and {e1,e2,e3}\{e_1, e_2, e_3\} forming a triangle in VV. In this paper we consider the following question: what triples of minimum degree conditions (δ(G1),δ(G2),δ(G3))(\delta(G_1), \delta(G_2), \delta(G_3)) guarantee the existence of a rainbow triangle? This may be seen as a minimum degree version of a problem of Aharoni, DeVos, de la Maza, Montejanos and \v{S}\'amal on density conditions for rainbow triangles, which was recently resolved by the authors. We establish that the extremal behaviour in the minimum degree setting differs strikingly from that seen in the density setting, with discrete jumps as opposed to continuous transitions. Our work leaves a number of natural questions open, which we discuss.

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@article{arxiv.2305.12772,
  title  = {Minimum degree conditions for rainbow triangles},
  author = {Victor Falgas-Ravry and Klas Markström and Eero Räty},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.12772},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

This paper was earlier part of a longer version of arXiv:2212.07180

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