Thresholds for constrained Ramsey and anti-Ramsey problems
Abstract
Let and be graphs. A graph has the constrained Ramsey property for if every edge-colouring of contains either a monochromatic copy of or a rainbow copy of . Our main result gives a 0-statement for the constrained Ramsey property in whenever for some and is not a forest. Along with previous work of Kohayakawa, Konstadinidis and Mota, this resolves the constrained Ramsey property for all non-trivial cases with the exception of , which is equivalent to the anti-Ramsey property for . For a fixed graph , we say that has the anti-Ramsey property for if any proper edge-colouring of contains a rainbow copy of . We show that the 0-statement for the anti-Ramsey problem in can be reduced to a (necessary) colouring statement, and use this to find the threshold for the anti-Ramsey property for some particular families of graphs.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2401.06881,
title = {Thresholds for constrained Ramsey and anti-Ramsey problems},
author = {Natalie Behague and Robert Hancock and Joseph Hyde and Shoham Letzter and Natasha Morrison},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.06881},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
27 pages, 2 figures, author accepted manuscript, to appear in European Journal of Combinatorics