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Given an integer $k \geq 2$, we consider the problem of computing the smallest real number $t(k)$ such that for each set $P$ of points in the plane, there exists a $t(k)$-spanner for $P$ that has chromatic number at most $k$. We prove that…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-11-02 Prosenjit Bose , Paz Carmi , Mathieu Couture , Anil Maheshwari , Michiel Smid , Norbert Zeh

In this paper we study the following problem proposed by Barrus, Ferrara, Vandenbussche, and Wenger. Given a graph $H$ and an integer $t$, what is $\operatorname{sat}_{t}\left(n, \mathfrak{R}{(H)}\right)$, the minimum number of edges in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-24 António Girão , David Lewis , Kamil Popielarz

We establish a sharp upper bound on the number of properly $3$-edge-colored $K_4$'s in graphs with $R$ red, $G$ green and $B$ blue edges. We give a computer-free flag-algebra proof of this bound, and we also convert our proof into a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-18 József Balogh , Peter Bradshaw , Ramon I. Garcia , Bernard Lidický

A tree in an edge colored graph is said to be a rainbow tree if no two edges on the tree share the same color. Given two positive integers $k$, $\ell$ with $k\geq 3$, the \emph{$(k,\ell)$-rainbow index} $rx_{k,\ell}(G)$ of $G$ is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-21 Qingqiong Cai , Xueliang Li , Jiangli Song

A $\frac{1}{k}$-majority $l$-edge-colouring of a graph $G$ is a colouring of its edges with $l$ colours such that for every colour $i$ and each vertex $v$ of $G$, at most $\frac{1}{k}$'th of the edges incident with $v$ have colour $i$. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-29 Paweł Pękała , Jakub Przybyło

The rainbow connection number $rc(G)$ and the rainbow vertex-connection number $rvc(G)$ of a graph $G$ were introduced by Chartrand et al. and Krivelevich and Yuster, respectively. Good upper bounds in terms of minimum degree $\delta$ were…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-03-22 Jiuying Dong , Xueliang Li

An exact $r$-coloring of a set $S$ is a surjective function $c:S\to [r]$. The rainbow number of a set $S$ for equation $eq$ is the smallest integer $r$ such that every exact $r$-coloring of $S$ contains a rainbow solution to $eq$. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-26 Katie Ansaldi , Houssein El Turkey , Jessica Hamm , Anisah Nu'Man , Nathan Warnberg , Michael Young

Given a graph $G$ and a coloring of its edges, a subgraph of $G$ is called rainbow if its edges have distinct colors. The rainbow girth of an edge coloring of G is the minimum length of a rainbow cycle in G. A generalization of the famous…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Ron Aharoni , He Guo

For an integer $t \geq 3$, let $\mathcal{L}(t)$ denote the linear equation $x_1 + x_2 + \cdots + x_{t-1} = x_t,$ where all variables are positive integers. For integers $k \geq 1$ and $t_0,t_1,\dots,t_{k-1} \geq 3$, the generalized Schur…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Yanyan Song , Yaping Mao

An edge colouring of $K_n$ with $k$ colours is a Gallai $k$-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 $g(k)$ such that $n\geq g(k)$ if and only if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Jun Yan

Let $f(n,r,k)$ be the minimal number such that every hypergraph larger than $f(n,r,k)$ contained in $\binom{[n]}{r}$ contains a matching of size $k$, and let $g(n,r,k)$ be the minimal number such that every hypergraph larger than $g(n,r,k)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Ron Aharoni , David Howard

For a given integer $k$, let $\ell_k$ denote the supremum $\ell$ such that every sufficiently large graph $G$ with average degree less than $2\ell$ admits a separator $X \subseteq V(G)$ for which $\chi(G[X]) < k$. Motivated by the values of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Guillaume Aubian , Marthe Bonamy , Romain Bourneuf , Oscar Fontaine , Lucas Picasarri-Arrieta

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

For any posotive integer $m$, let $[m]:=\{1,\ldots,m\}$. Let $n,k,t$ be positive integers. Aharoni and Howard conjectured that if, for $i\in [t]$, $\mathcal{F}_i\subset[n]^k:= \{(a_1,\ldots,a_k): a_j\in [n] \mbox{ for } j\in [k]\}$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Hongliang Lu , Xingxing Yu

The Ramsey number $r_k(s,n)$ is the minimum $N$ such that for every red-blue coloring of the $k$-tuples of $\{1,\ldots, N\}$, there are $s$ integers such that every $k$-tuple among them is red, or $n$ integers such that every $k$-tuple…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Dhruv Mubayi , Andrew Suk

Let $k\in \mathbb{N}$ and $s\geq k(\log k+3.20032)$. Let $\mathbb{N}_{0}^{k}$ be the set of $k$-th powers of nonnegative integers. Assume that $\psi$ is an increasing function tending to infinity with $\psi(x)=o(\log x)$ and satifying some…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Javier Pliego

The $t$-colored rainbow saturation number $rsat_t(n,F)$ is the minimum size of a $t$-edge-colored graph on $n$ vertices that contains no rainbow copy of $F$, but the addition of any missing edge in any color creates such a rainbow copy.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Dániel Korándi

An edge-coloured graph is said to be rainbow if no colour appears more than once. Extremal problems involving rainbow objects have been a focus of much research over the last decade as they capture the essence of a number of interesting…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Noga Alon , Matija Bucić , Lisa Sauermann , Dmitrii Zakharov , Or Zamir

A tree $T$, in an edge-colored graph $G$, is called {\em a rainbow tree} if no two edges of $T$ are assigned the same color. A {\em $k$-rainbow coloring}of $G$ is an edge coloring of $G$ having the property that for every set $S$ of $k$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-05 Tingting Liu , Yumei Hu

For positive integers $n$ and $k$, the \emph{anti-van der Waerden number} of $\mathbb{Z}_n$, denoted by $aw(\mathbb{Z}_n,k)$, is the minimum number of colors needed to color the elements of the cyclic group of order $n$ and guarantee there…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-29 Michael Young