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We present extensions of the Colorful Helly Theorem for $d$-collapsible and $d$-Leray complexes, providing a common generalization to the matroidal versions of the theorem due to Kalai and Meshulam, the ``very colorful" Helly theorem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Minki Kim , Alan Lew

We use the probabilistic method to obtain versions of the colorful Carath\'eodory theorem and Tverberg's theorem with tolerance. In particular, we give bounds for the smallest integer $N=N(t,d,r)$ such that for any $N$ points in $R^d$,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-16 Pablo Soberón

We show that for any integer $t \ge 2$, every properly edge colored $n$-vertex graph with average degree at least $(\log n)^{2+o(1)}$ contains a rainbow subdivision of a complete graph of size $t$. Note that this bound is within $(\log…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Yan Wang

In 2009, Blagojevic, Matschke & Ziegler established the first tight colored Tverberg theorem, but no lower bounds for the number of colored Tverberg partitions. We develop a colored version of our previous results (2008), and we extend our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-11 Stephan Hell

We prove a "Tverberg type" multiple intersection theorem. It strengthens the prime case of the original Tverberg theorem from 1966, as well as the topological Tverberg theorem of Barany et al. (1980), by adding color constraints. It also…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Pavle V. M. Blagojević , Benjamin Matschke , Günter M. Ziegler

Let $G$ be a simple $n$-vertex graph and $c$ be a colouring of $E(G)$ with $n$ colours, where each colour class has size at least $2$. We prove that $(G,c)$ contains a rainbow cycle of length at most $\lceil \frac{n}{2} \rceil$, which is…

A well-studied coloring problem is to assign colors to the edges of a graph $G$ so that, for every pair of vertices, all edges of at least one shortest path between them receive different colors. The minimum number of colors necessary in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-17 L. Sunil Chandran , Anita Das , Davis Issac , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

We compare the strength of polychromatic and monochromatic Ramsey theory in several set-theoretic domains. We show that the rainbow Ramsey theorem does not follow from ZF, nor does the rainbow Ramsey theorem imply Ramsey's theorem over ZF.…

Logic · Mathematics 2012-05-18 Justin Palumbo

Our point of departure is the following simple common generalisation of the Sylvester-Gallai theorem and the Motzkin-Rabin theorem: Let S be a finite set of points in the plane, with each point coloured red or blue or with both colours.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-03-12 L. M. Pretorius , K. J. Swanepoel

DeVos et al conjectured that if $M$ is a simple, regular matroid and $c$ is a colouring of the elements of $M$ with $r(M)+1$ colours, where each colour class has at least two elements, then $M$ contains a rainbow circuit of size at most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Sean McGuinness

In this paper, we present some results related to Barany-Larman colored problem and The Zivaljevic and Vrecica colored Tverberg problem. We give an alternative proof for the Barany-Larman Conjecture for primes -1 and the optimal colored…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Carlos H. F. Poncio , Edivaldo Lopes dos Santos , Leandro Vicente Mauri , Denise de Mattos

Let $G$ be an edge-colored graph. We use $e(G)$ and $c(G)$ to denote the number of edges of $G$ and the number of colors appearing on $E(G)$, respectively. For a vertex $v\in V(G)$, the \emph{color neighborhood} of $v$ is defined as the set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-07 Shinya Fujita , Bo Ning , Chuandong Xu , Shenggui Zhang

B\'ar\'any, Kalai, and Meshulam recently obtained a topological Tverberg-type theorem for matroids, which guarantees multiple coincidences for continuous maps from a matroid complex to d-dimensional Euclidean space, if the matroid has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-11 Pavle V. M. Blagojević , Albert Haase , Günter M. Ziegler

Let $M_1,M_2,\ldots,M_k$ be a collection of matroids on the same ground set $E$. A coloring $c:E \rightarrow \{1,2,\ldots,k\}$ is called \emph{cooperative} if for every color $j$, the set of elements in color $j$ is independent in $M_j$. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-16 Tomasz Bartnicki , Sebastian Czerwiński , Jarosław Grytczuk , Zofia Miechowicz

This is the second in a sequence of three papers in which we prove the following generalization of Thomassen's 5-choosability theorem: Let $G$ be a graph embedded on a surface of genus $g$. Then $G$ can be $L$-colored, where $L$ is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-22 Joshua Nevin

The colorful Helly theorem and Tverberg's theorem are fundamental results in discrete geometry. We prove a theorem which interpolates between the two. In particular, we show the following for any integers $d \geq m \geq 1$ and $k$ a prime…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-25 Michael Gene Dobbins , Andreas F. Holmsen , Dohyeon Lee

For an $r$-graph $F$ and integers $n,t$ satisfying $t \le n/v(F)$, let $\mathrm{ar}(n,tF)$ denote the minimum integer $N$ such that every edge-coloring of $K_{n}^{r}$ using $N$ colors contains a rainbow copy of $tF$, where $tF$ is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Jinghua Deng , Jianfeng Hou , Xizhi Liu , Caihong Yang

Consider a matroid $M=(E,\mathcal{I})$ with its elements of the ground set $E$ colored. A rainbow basis is a maximum independent set in which each element receives a different color. The rank of a subset $S$ of $E$, denoted by $r_M(S)$, is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Linyuan Lu , Andrew Meier

We prove the following optimal colorful Tverberg-Vrecica type transversal theorem: For prime r and for any k+1 colored collections of points C^l of size |C^l|=(r-1)(d-k+1)+1 in R^d, where each C^l is a union of subsets (color classes) C_i^l…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Pavle Blagojevic , Benjamin Matschke , Gunter Ziegler

Hadwiger's transversal theorem gives necessary and sufficient conditions for a family of convex sets in the plane to have a line transversal. A higher dimensional version was obtained by Goodman, Pollack and Wenger, and recently a colorful…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-17 Andreas F. Holmsen , Edgardo Roldán-Pensado