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Rainbow triangles sharing one common vertex or edge

Combinatorics 2025-10-14 v1

Abstract

Let GG be an edge-colored graph on nn vertices. For a vertex vv, the \emph{color degree} of vv in GG, denoted by dc(v)d^c(v), is the number of colors appearing on the edges incident with vv. Denote by δc(G)=min{dc(v):vV(G)}\delta^c(G)=\min\{d^c(v):v\in V(G)\}. By a theorem of H. Li, an nn-vertex edge-colored graph GG contains a rainbow triangle if δc(G)n+12\delta^c(G)\geq \frac{n+1}{2}. Inspired by this result, we consider two related questions concerning edge-colored books and friendship subgraphs of edge-colored graphs. Let k2k\geq 2 be a positive integer. We prove that if δc(G)n+k12\delta^c(G)\geq \frac{n+k-1}{2} where n3k2n\geq 3k-2, then GG contains kk rainbow triangles sharing one common edge; and if δc(G)n+2k32\delta^c(G)\geq \frac{n+2k-3}{2} where n2k+9n\geq 2k+9, then GG contains kk rainbow triangles sharing one common vertex. The special case k=2k=2 of both results improves H. Li's theorem. The main novelty of our proof of the first result is a combination of the recent new technique for finding rainbow cycles due to Czygrinow, Molla, Nagle, and Oursler and some recent counting technique from \cite{LNSZ}. The proof of the second result is with the aid of the machine implicitly in the work of Tur\'an numbers for matching numbers due to Erd\H{o}s and Gallai.

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@article{arxiv.2302.00851,
  title  = {Rainbow triangles sharing one common vertex or edge},
  author = {Xiaozheng Chen and Bo Ning},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.00851},
  year   = {2025}
}

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17 pages

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