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Rainbow saturation and graph capacities

Combinatorics 2018-04-04 v2

Abstract

The tt-colored rainbow saturation number rsatt(n,F)rsat_t(n,F) is the minimum size of a tt-edge-colored graph on nn vertices that contains no rainbow copy of FF, but the addition of any missing edge in any color creates such a rainbow copy. Barrus, Ferrara, Vandenbussche and Wenger conjectured that rsatt(n,Ks)=Θ(nlogn)rsat_t(n,K_s) = \Theta(n\log n) for every s3s\ge 3 and t(s2)t\ge \binom{s}{2}. In this short note we prove the conjecture in a strong sense, asymptotically determining the rainbow saturation number for triangles. Our lower bound is probabilistic in spirit, the upper bound is based on the Shannon capacity of a certain family of cliques.

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@article{arxiv.1711.01047,
  title  = {Rainbow saturation and graph capacities},
  author = {Dániel Korándi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.01047},
  year   = {2018}
}

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5 pages, minor changes

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