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In this paper, we first study a new extremal problem recently posed by Conlon and Tyomkyn~(arXiv: 2002.00921). Given a graph $H$ and an integer $k\geqslant 2$, let $f_{k}(n,H)$ be the smallest number of colors $c$ such that there exists a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Zixiang Xu , Tao Zhang , Yifan Jing , Gennian Ge

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

Extremal problems concerning the number of independent sets or complete subgraphs in a graph have been well studied in recent years. Cutler and Radcliffe proved that among graphs with $n$ vertices and maximum degree at most $r$, where $n =…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-11 R. Kirsch , A. J. Radcliffe

Given a set $X$ and an integer $t$, let $\mathcal{F}$ be a family of $k$-subsets of $X$. The Kruskal--Katona theorem states that if $|\mathcal{F}|\geq \binom{t}{k}$, then $|\partial_\ell\mathcal{F}|\geq\binom{t}{\ell}$. The minimum degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Haorui Liu , Mei Lu , Yi Zhang

Alon, Balogh, Keevash and Sudakov proved that the $(k-1)$-partite Tur\'an graph maximizes the number of distinct $r$-edge-colorings with no monochromatic $K_k$ for all fixed $k$ and $r=2,3$, among all $n$-vertex graphs. In this paper, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-25 József Balogh , Hong Liu , Maryam Sharifzadeh

The problem of determining extremal hypergraphs containing at most r isomorphic copies of some element of a given hypergraph family was first studied by Boros et al. in 2001. There are not many hypergraph families for which exact results…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-12-18 Yeow Meng Chee , Alan C. H. Ling

Albertson conjectured that if graph $G$ has chromatic number $r$, then the crossing number of $G$ is at least that of the complete graph $K_r$. This conjecture in the case $r=5$ is equivalent to the four color theorem. It was verified for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-12 Michael O. Albertson , Daniel W. Cranston , Jacob Fox

We consider the red-blue-yellow matching problem: given two natural numbers $k_R$, $k_B$ and a graph $G$ whose edges are colored red, blue or yellow, the goal is to find a matching of $G$ that contains exactly $k_R$ red edges and exactly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Manuel Aprile , Marco Di Summa

A classical result of Corr\'adi and Hajnal states that every graph $G$ on $n$ vertices with $n\in 3\mathbb{N}$ and $\delta(G) \ge 2n/3$ contains a perfect triangle-tiling, i.e.,\ a spanning set of vertex-disjoint triangles. We explore a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Allan Lo , Ella Williams

An edge-coloured cycle is $rainbow$ if all edges of the cycle have distinct colours. For $k\geq 1$, let $\mathcal{F}_{k}$ denote the family of all graphs with the property that any $k$ vertices lie on a cycle. For $G\in \mathcal{F}_{k}$, a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Shasha Li , Yongtang Shi , Jianhua Tu , Yan Zhao

In an edge-colored graph $G$, a rainbow clique $K_k$ is a $k$-complete subgraph in which all the edges have distinct colors. Let $e(G)$ and $c(G)$ be the number of edges and colors in $G$, respectively. In this paper, we show that for any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Xiao-Chuan Liu , Danni Peng , Xu Yang

Fix $k\ge 11$ and a rainbow $k$-clique $R$. We prove that the inducibility of $R$ is $k!/(k^k-k)$. An extremal construction is a balanced recursive blow-up of $R$. This answers a question posed by Huang, that is a generalization of an old…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Emily Cairncross , Clayton Mizgerd , Dhruv Mubayi

Let $r_k(s, e; t)$ denote the smallest $N$ such that any red/blue edge coloring of the complete $k$-uniform hypergraph on $N$ vertices contains either $e$ red edges among some $s$ vertices, or a blue clique of size $t$. Erd\H os and Hajnal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Ruben Ascoli , Xiaoyu He , Hung-Hsun Hans Yu

This work considers new entropy-based proofs of some known, or otherwise refined, combinatorial bounds for bipartite graphs. These include upper bounds on the number of the independent sets, lower bounds on the minimal number of colors in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Igal Sason

Let $[n]$ denote the set $\{1, 2, \ldots, n\}$ and $\mathcal{F}^{(r)}_{n,k,a}$ be an $r$-uniform hypergraph on the vertex set $[n]$ with edge set consisting of all the $r$-element subsets of $[n]$ that contains at least $a$ vertices in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Erica L. L. Liu , Jian Wang

Given an edge-coloured graph, we say that a subgraph is rainbow if all of its edges have different colours. Let $\operatorname{ex}(n,H,$rainbow-$F)$ denote the maximal number of copies of $H$ that a properly edge-coloured graph on $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Barnabás Janzer

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

The Kneser graph $KG_{n,k}$ is the graph whose vertices are the $k$-element subsets of $[n],$ with two vertices adjacent if and only if the corresponding sets are disjoint. A famous result due to Lov\'asz states that the chromatic number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-07 Andrey Kupavskii

The anti-Ramsey number, $ar(G, H)$ is the minimum integer $k$ such that in any edge colouring of $G$ with $k$ colours there is a rainbow subgraph isomorphic to $H$, i.e., a copy of $H$ with each of its edges assigned a different colour. The…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-10-28 L Sunil Chandran , Abhiruk Lahiri , Nitin Singh

Fix $r \ge 2$ and a collection of $r$-uniform hypergraphs $\cH$. What is the minimum number of edges in an $\cH$-free $r$-uniform hypergraph with chromatic number greater than $k$. We investigate this question for various $\cH$. Our results…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-02-17 Tom Bohman , Alan Frieze , Dhruv Mubayi