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A sequence of positive integers $w_1,w_2,...,w_n$ is called an ascending wave if $w_{i+1}-w_i \geq w_i - w_{i-1}$ for $2 \leq i \leq n-1$. For integers $k,r\geq1$, let $AW(k;r)$ be the least positive integer such that under any $r$-coloring…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tim LeSaulnier , Aaron Robertson

We show that there is a red-blue colouring of $[N]$ with no blue 3-term arithmetic progression and no red arithmetic progression of length $e^{C(\log N)^{3/4}(\log \log N)^{1/4}}$. Consequently, the two-colour van der Waerden number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-17 Ben Green

Given positive integers $n$ and $k$, a $k$-term semi-progression of scope $m$ is a sequence $(x_1,x_2,...,x_k)$ such that $x_{j+1} - x_j \in \{d,2d,\ldots,md\}, 1 \le j \le k-1$, for some positive integer $d$. Thus an arithmetic progression…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-14 Mano Vikash Janardhanan , Sujith Vijay

An edge-colored hypergraph is called \emph{a rainbow hypergraph} if all the colors on its edges are distinct. Given two positive integers $n,r$ and an $r$-uniform hypergraph $\mathcal{G}$, the anti-Ramsey number $ar_r(n,\mathcal{G})$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Hongliang Lu , Xinyue Luo , Xinxin Ma

The Van der Waerden number $W(k,r)$ denotes the smallest $n$ such that whenever $[n]$ is $r$--colored there exists a monochromatic arithmetic progression of length $k$. Similarly, the Hilbert cube number $h(k,r)$ denotes the smallest $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-24 József Balogh , Mikhail Lavrov , George Shakan , Adam Zsolt Wagner

According to a study by Erd\H{o}s et al. in 1975, the anti-Ramsey number of a graph \(G\), denoted as \(AR(n, G)\), is defined as the maximum number of colors that can be used in an edge-coloring of the complete graph \(K_n\) without…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Ali Ghalavand , Qing Jie , Zemin Jin , Xueliang Li , Linshu Pan

The anti-Ramsey number, $AR(n,G)$, for a graph $G$ and an integer $n\geq|V(G)|$, is defined to be the minimal integer $r$ such that in any edge-colouring of $K_n$ by at least $r$ colours there is a multicoloured copy of $G$, namely, a copy…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-15 Shoni Gilboa , Yehuda Roditty

Let $n,s,$ and $k$ be positive integers such that $k\geq 3$, $s\geq 3$ and $n\geq ks$. An $s$-matching $M_s$ in a $k$-uniform hypergraph is a set of $s$ pairwise disjoint edges. The anti-Ramsey number $\textrm{ar}(n,k,M_s)$ of an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-26 Mingyang Guo , Hongliang Lu , Xing Peng

For a fixed family of $r$-uniform hypergraphs $\mathcal{F}$, the anti-Ramsey number of $\mathcal{F}$, denoted by $ ar(n,r,\mathcal{F})$, is the minimum number $c$ of colors such that for any edge-coloring of the complete $r$-uniform…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-08 Tong Li , Yucong Tang , Guanghui Wang , Guiying Yan

The van der Waerden number W(k,2) is the smallest integer n such that every 2-coloring of 1 to n has a monochromatic arithmetic progression of length k. The existence of such an n for any k is due to van der Waerden but known upper bounds…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-04-08 William Gasarch , Bernhard Haeupler

Consider the set $\{1,2,\dots,n\} = [n]$ and an equation $eq$. The rainbow number of $[n]$ for $eq$, denoted $\operatorname{rb}([n],eq)$, is the smallest number of colors such that for every exact $\operatorname{rb}([n], eq)$-coloring of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Kean Fallon , Colin Giles , Hunter Rehm , Simon Wagner , Nathan Warnberg

In this paper, we study the rainbow Erd\H{o}s-Rothschild problem with respect to 3-term arithmetic progressions. We obtain the asymptotic number of $r$-colorings of $[n]$ without rainbow 3-term arithmetic progressions, and we show that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Xihe Li , Hajo Broersma , Ligong Wang

An edge-colored graph is called a rainbow graph if all its edges have distinct colors. The anti-Ramsey number $ar(n, G)$, for a graph $G$ and a positive integer $n$, is defined as the minimum number of colors $r$ such that every exact…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Hongliang Lu , Xinyue Luo , Xinxin Ma

In this work, we investigate the fewest number of colors needed to guarantee a rainbow solution to the equation $x_1 + x_2 = k x_3$ in $\mathbb{Z}_n$. This value is called the Rainbow number and is denoted by $rb(\mathbb{Z}_n, k)$ for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-13 Erin Bevilacqua , Samuel King , Jürgen Kritschgau , Michael Tait , Suzannah Tebon , Michael Young

Let $r$ and $k$ be positive integers with $r \mid k$. Denote by $w_{\mathrm{\mathfrak{z}}}(k;r)$ the minimum integer such that every coloring $\chi:[1,w_{\mathrm{\mathfrak{z}}}(k;r)] \rightarrow \{0,1,\dots,r-1\}$ admits a $k$-term…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-12 Aaron Robertson

The anti-Ramsey number $\mathrm{ar}(n,F)$ of an $r$-graph $F$ is the minimum number of colors needed to color the complete $n$-vertex $r$-graph to ensure the existence of a rainbow copy of $F$. We establish a removal-type result for the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Xizhi Liu , Jialei Song

Define $T_k$ as the minimal $t\in \mathbb{N}$ for which there is a rainbow arithmetic progression of length $k$ in every equinumerous $t$-coloring of $[tn]$ for all $n\in \mathbb{N}$. Jungi\'{c}, Licht (Fox), Mahdian, Nesetril and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-22 József Balogh , William Linz , Letícia Mattos

Given a graph $H$, the maximal anti-Ramsey function $f(n,e,H)$ denotes the minimum integer $f$ for which there exists an $n$-vertex graph $G$ with at least $e$ edges admitting an edge-coloring with $f$ colors in which each copy of $H$ in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Matija Bucic , Kaizhe Chen , Jie Ma

The anti-Ramsey number $AR(n,G$), for a graph $G$ and an integer $n\geq|V(G)|$, is defined to be the minimal integer $r$ such that in any edge-colouring of $K_n$ by at least $r$ colours there is a multicoloured copy of $G$, namely, a copy…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-14 Arie Bialostocki , Shoni Gilboa , Yehuda Roditty

For $n \geq k \geq 4$, let $AR_{X + Y = Z + T}^k (n)$ be the maximum number of rainbow solutions to the Sidon equation $X+Y = Z + T$ over all $k$-colorings $c:[n] \rightarrow [k]$. It can be shown that the total number of solutions in $[n]$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-30 Vladislav Taranchuk , Craig Timmons