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Rainbow trees in uniformly edge-coloured graphs

Combinatorics 2021-05-25 v2

Abstract

We obtain sufficient conditions for the emergence of spanning and almost-spanning bounded-degree {\sl rainbow} trees in various host graphs, having their edges coloured independently and uniformly at random, using a predetermined palette. Our first result asserts that a uniform colouring of G(n,ω(1)/n)\mathbb{G}(n,\omega(1)/n), using a palette of size nn, a.a.s. admits a rainbow copy of any given bounded-degree tree on at most (1ε)n(1-\varepsilon)n vertices, where ε>0\varepsilon > 0 is arbitrarily small yet fixed. This serves as a rainbow variant of a classical result by Alon, Krivelevich, and Sudakov pertaining to the embedding of bounded-degree almost-spanning prescribed trees in G(n,C/n)\mathbb{G}(n,C/n), where C>0C > 0 is independent of nn. Given an nn-vertex graph GG with minimum degree at least δn\delta n, where δ>0\delta > 0 is fixed, we use our aforementioned result in order to prove that a uniform colouring of the randomly perturbed graph GG(n,ω(1)/n)G \cup \mathbb{G}(n,\omega(1)/n), using (1+α)n(1+\alpha)n colours, where α>0\alpha > 0 is arbitrarily small yet fixed, a.a.s. admits a rainbow copy of any given bounded-degree {\sl spanning} tree. This can be viewed as a rainbow variant of a result by Krivelevich, Kwan, and Sudakov who proved that GG(n,C/n)G \cup \mathbb{G}(n,C/n), where C>0C > 0 is independent of nn, a.a.s. admits a copy of any given bounded-degree spanning tree. Finally, and with GG as above, we prove that a uniform colouring of GG(n,ω(n2))G \cup \mathbb{G}(n,\omega(n^{-2})) using n1n-1 colours a.a.s. admits a rainbow spanning tree. Put another way, the trivial lower bound on the size of the palette required for supporting a rainbow spanning tree is also sufficient, essentially as soon as the random perturbation a.a.s. has edges.

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@article{arxiv.2105.08315,
  title  = {Rainbow trees in uniformly edge-coloured graphs},
  author = {Elad Aigner-Horev and Dan Hefetz and Abhiruk Lahiri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.08315},
  year   = {2021}
}

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19 pages

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