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Rainbow Subgraphs in Edge-colored Complete Graphs -- Answering two Questions by Erd\H{o}s and Tuza

Combinatorics 2022-11-29 v2

Abstract

An edge-coloring of a complete graph with a set of colors CC is called completely balanced if any vertex is incident to the same number of edges of each color from CC. Erd\H{o}s and Tuza asked in 19931993 whether for any graph FF on \ell edges and any completely balanced coloring of any sufficiently large complete graph using \ell colors contains a rainbow copy of FF. This question was restated by Erd\H{o}s in his list of ``Some of my favourite problems on cycles and colourings''. We answer this question in the negative for most cliques F=KqF=K_q by giving explicit constructions of respective completely balanced colorings. Further, we answer a related question concerning completely balanced colorings of complete graphs with more colors than the number of edges in the graph FF.

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@article{arxiv.2209.13867,
  title  = {Rainbow Subgraphs in Edge-colored Complete Graphs -- Answering two Questions by Erd\H{o}s and Tuza},
  author = {Maria Axenovich and Felix Christian Clemen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.13867},
  year   = {2022}
}

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