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Realising every colour distribution sequence with a Gallai colouring

Combinatorics 2023-09-13 v2

Abstract

An edge colouring of KnK_n with kk colours is a Gallai kk-colouring if it does not contain any rainbow triangle. Gy\'arf\'as, P\'alv\"olgyi, Patk\'os and Wales proved that there exists a number g(k)g(k) such that ng(k)n\geq g(k) if and only if for any colour distribution sequence (e1,,ek)(e_1,\cdots,e_k) with i=1kei=(n2)\sum_{i=1}^ke_i=\binom{n}{2}, there exist a Gallai kk-colouring of KnK_n with eie_i edges having colour ii. They also showed that Ω(k)=g(k)=O(k2)\Omega(k)=g(k)=O(k^2) and posed the problem of determining the exact order of magnitude of g(k)g(k). Feffer, Fu and Yan improved both bounds significantly by proving Ω(k1.5/logk)=g(k)=O(k1.5)\Omega(k^{1.5}/\log k)=g(k)=O(k^{1.5}). We resolve this problem by showing g(k)=Θ(k1.5/(logk)0.5)g(k)=\Theta(k^{1.5}/(\log k)^{0.5}).

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@article{arxiv.2303.10748,
  title  = {Realising every colour distribution sequence with a Gallai colouring},
  author = {Jun Yan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.10748},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

This result is absorbed into my new paper arXiv:2309.05606 (coauthored with Zhuo Wu), which also studies the generalised version of this problem

R2 v1 2026-06-28T09:23:06.686Z