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Let $G$ be an edge-colored graph. We use $e(G)$ and $c(G)$ to denote the number of edges and colors in $G$, respectively. A subgraph $H$ is called rainbow if $c(H)=e(H)$. Li et al. (European J. Combin., 36 (2014), 453-459) proved that every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Hongliang Lu , Zixuan Yang , Feihong Yuan

The K{\L}R conjecture of Kohayakawa, {\L}uczak, and R\"odl is a statement that allows one to prove that asymptotically almost surely all subgraphs of the random graph G_{n,p}, for sufficiently large p : = p(n), satisfy an embedding lemma…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-22 D. Conlon , W. T. Gowers , W. Samotij , M. Schacht

Nearly thirty years ago, Bar-Noy, Motwani and Naor [IPL'92] conjectured that an online $(1+o(1))\Delta$-edge-coloring algorithm exists for $n$-node graphs of maximum degree $\Delta=\omega(\log n)$. This conjecture remains open in general,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Sayan Bhattacharya , Fabrizio Grandoni , David Wajc

By a theorem of Drisko, any $2n-1$ matchings of size $n$ in a bipartite graph have a partial rainbow matching of size $n$. Inspired by discussion of Bar\'at, Gy\'arf\'as and S\'ark\"ozy, we conjecture that if $n$ is odd then the same is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Ron Aharoni , Eli Berger , Maria Chudnovsky , David Howard , Paul Seymour

We formulate a geometric version of the Erd\H{o}s-Hajnal conjecture that applies to finite projective geometries rather than graphs, in both its usual 'induced' form and the multicoloured form. The multicoloured conjecture states, roughly,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Carolyn Chun , James Dylan Douthitt , Wayne Ge , Tony Huynh , Matthew E. Kroeker , Peter Nelson

For $t \in \mathbb{N}$, we say that a colouring of $E(K_n)$ is $\textit{almost}$ $t$-$\textit{Gallai}$ if no two rainbow $t$-cliques share an edge. Motivated by a lemma of Berkowitz on bounding the modulus of the characteristic function of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Alexandr Grebennikov , Letícia Mattos , Tibor Szabó

A rainbow colouring of a connected graph is a colouring of the edges of the graph, such that every pair of vertices is connected by at least one path in which no two edges are coloured the same. Such a colouring using minimum possible…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-05-09 L. Sunil Chandran , Deepak Rajendraprasad

In this paper we introduce a general framework for proving lower bounds for various Ramsey type problems within random settings. The main idea is to view the problem from an algorithmic perspective: we aim at providing an algorithm that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-25 Rajko Nenadov , Yury Person , Nemanja Škorić , Angelika Steger

Lov\'asz gave a short proof of Brooks' theorem by coloring greedily in a good order. We give a different short proof by reducing to the cubic case. Then we show how to extend the result to (online) list coloring via the Kernel Lemma.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-26 Landon Rabern

Let $G_{n,p}^{[\kappa]}$ denote the space of $n$-vertex edge coloured graphs, where each edge occurs independently with probability $p$. The colour of each existing edge is chosen independently and uniformly at random from the set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Colin Cooper , Alan Frieze

Given graphs $G$ and $H$, we say $G \stackrel{r}{\to} H$ if every $r$-colouring of the edges of $G$ contains a monochromatic copy of $H$. Let $H[t]$ denote the $t$-blowup of $H$. The blowup Ramsey number $B(G \stackrel{r}{\to} H;t)$ is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-29 António Girão , Robert Hancock

We give asymptotically optimal constructions in generalized Ramsey theory using results about conflict-free hypergraph matchings. For example, we present an edge-coloring of $K_{n,n}$ with $2n/3 + o(n)$ colors such that each $4$-cycle…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-29 Felix Joos , Dhruv Mubayi

An edge-colored graph $G$ is {\em rainbow connected} if any two vertices are connected by a path whose edges have distinct colors. The {\em rainbow connection} of a connected graph $G$, denoted $rc(G)$, is the smallest number of colors that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-09-16 Sourav Chakraborty , Eldar Fischer , Arie Matsliah , Raphael Yuster

In the field of parameterized complexity theory, the study of graph width measures has been intimately connected with the development of width-based model checking algorithms for combinatorial properties on graphs. In this work, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Mateus de Oliveira Oliveira , Sam Urmian

We introduce a new method for decomposing the edge set of a graph, and use it to replace the Regularity lemma of Szemer\'edi in some graph embedding problems. An algorithmic version is also given.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-27 Béla Csaba

Drisko proved that $2n-1$ matchings of size $n$ in a bipartite graph have a rainbow matching of size $n$. For general graphs it is conjectured that $2n$ matchings suffice for this purpose (and that $2n-1$ matchings suffice when $n$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-17 Ron Aharoni , Joseph Briggs , Jinha Kim , Minki Kim

The Rainbow k-Coloring problem asks whether the edges of a given graph can be colored in $k$ colors so that every pair of vertices is connected by a rainbow path, i.e., a path with all edges of different colors. Our main result states that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-19 Łukasz Kowalik , Juho Lauri , Arkadiusz Socała

Recently, Souza introduced blowup Ramsey numbers as a generalization of bipartite Ramsey numbers. For graphs $G$ and $H$, say $G\overset{r}{\longrightarrow} H$ if every $r$-edge-coloring of $G$ contains a monochromatic copy of $H$. Let…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-08 Jacob Fox , Sammy Luo , Yuval Wigderson

This paper is concerned with two conjectures which are intimately related. The first is a generalization to hypergraphs of Vizing's Theorem on the chromatic index of a graph and the second is the well-known conjecture of Erd\H{o}s, Faber…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Alain Bretto , Alain Faisant , Francois Hennecart

The canonical van der Waerden theorem asserts that, for sufficiently large $n$, every colouring of $[n]$ contains either a monochromatic or a rainbow arithmetic progression of length $k$ ($k$-AP, for short). In this paper, we determine the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-28 José D. Alvarado , Yoshiharu Kohayakawa , Patrick Morris , Guilherme O. Mota , Miquel Ortega