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Rainbow Erd\H{o}s-S\'os Conjectures

Combinatorics 2025-02-04 v1

Abstract

An edge colored graph is said to contain rainbow-FF if FF is a subgraph and every edge receives a different color. In 2007, Keevash, Mubayi, Sudakov, and Verstra\"ete introduced the \emph{rainbow extremal number} ex(n,F)\mathrm{ex}^*(n,F), a variant on the classical Tur\'an problem, asking for the maximum number of edges in a nn-vertex properly edge-colored graph which does not contain a rainbow-FF. In the following years many authors have studied the asymptotic behavior of ex(n,F)\mathrm{ex}^*(n,F) when FF is bipartite. In the particular case that FF is a tree TT, the infamous Erd\"os-S\'os conjecture says that the extremal number of TT depends only on the size of TT and not its structure. After observing that such a pattern cannot hold for ex\mathrm{ex}^* in the usual setting, we propose that the relative rainbow extremal number ex(Qn,T)\mathrm{ex}^*(Q_n,T) in the nn-dimensional hypercube QnQ_n will satisfy an Erd\"os-S\'os type Conjecture and verify it for some infinite families of trees TT.

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@article{arxiv.2502.00135,
  title  = {Rainbow Erd\H{o}s-S\'os Conjectures},
  author = {Nicholas Crawford and Dylan King and Sam Spiro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.00135},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

14 pages, 8 figures

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