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We study a quantitative Ramsey-type problem on 3-term arithmetic progressions: how should the set of integers $[n] = \{1, 2, \dots, n\}$ be colored using 3 colors in order to maximize the number of rainbow 3-term arithmetic progressions? By…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Gabriel Elvin , Alexis Gonzales , Alejandro Rodriguez , Israel Wilbur

Rainbow connection number rc(G) of a connected graph G is the minimum number of colours needed to colour the edges of G, so that every pair of vertices is connected by at least one path in which no two edges are coloured the same. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-21 L. Sunil Chandran , Anita Das , Deepak Rajendraprasad , Nithin M. Varma

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

Considering regular graphs with every edge in a triangle we prove lower bounds for the number of triangles in such graphs. For r-regular graphs with r <= 5 we exhibit families of graphs with exactly that number of triangles and then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-02 James Preen

Consider the set $[m]\times [n] = \{(i,j)\, : 1\le i \le m, 1\le j \le n\}$ and the equation $x_1+x_2 = x_3$, namely $eq$. The \emph{rainbow number of $[m] \times [n]$ for $eq$}, denoted $\text{rb}([m]\times [n],eq)$, is the smallest number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-26 Kean Fallon , Ethan Manhart , Joe Miller , Hunter Rehm , Nathan Warnberg , Laura Zinnel

In this note we introduce a new randomized algorithm for counting triangles in graphs. We show that under mild conditions, the estimate of our algorithm is strongly concentrated around the true number of triangles. Specifically, if $p \geq…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-04-01 Rasmus Pagh , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

We prove that any family $E_1, \ldots , E_{\lceil rn \rceil}$ of (not necessarily distinct) sets of edges in an $r$-uniform hypergraph, each having a fractional matching of size $n$, has a rainbow fractional matching of size $n$ (that is, a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Ron Aharoni , Ron Holzman , Zilin Jiang

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

An edge coloring of the n-vertex complete graph K_n is a Gallai coloring if it does not contain any rainbow triangle, that is, a triangle whose edges are colored with three distinct colors. We prove that the number of Gallai colorings of…

An edge-colored graph is a graph in which each edge is assigned a color. Such a graph is called strongly edge-colored if each color class forms an induced matching, and called rainbow if all edges receive pairwise distinct colors. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Laihao Ding , Xiaolan Hu , Suyun Jiang

In a rainbow version of the classical Tur\'an problem one considers multiple graphs on a common vertex set, thinking of each graph as edges in a distinct color, and wants to determine the minimum number of edges in each color which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Daniel Gerbner , Andrzej Grzesik , Cory Palmer , Magdalena Prorok

Let $G$ be an edge-colored graph. A rainbow (heterochromatic, or multicolored) path of $G$ is such a path in which no two edges have the same color. Let the color degree of a vertex $v$ be the number of different colors that are used on the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-17 He Chen , Xueliang Li

The concept of rainbow disconnection number of graphs was introduced by Chartrand et al. in 2018. Inspired by this concept, we put forward the concepts of rainbow vertex-disconnection and proper disconnection in graphs. In this paper, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-30 You Chen , Ping Li , Xueliang Li , Yindi Weng

For positive integers $n$ and $r$, we consider $n$-vertex graphs with the maximum number of $r$-edge-colorings with no copy of a triangle where exactly two colors appear. We prove that, if $2 \leq r \leq 26$ and $n$ is sufficiently large,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Carlos Hoppen , Hanno Lefmann , Dionatan Ricardo Schmidt

A path in an edge-colored graph $G$, where adjacent edges may have the same color, is called a rainbow path if no two edges of the path are colored the same. The rainbow connection number $rc(G)$ of $G$ is the minimum integer $i$ for which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Hengzhe Li , Xueliang Li , Sujuan Liu

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

A spanning tree of a properly edge-colored complete graph, $K_n$, is rainbow provided that each of its edges receives a distinct color. In 1996, Brualdi and Hollingsworth conjectured that if $K_{2m}$ is properly $(2m-1)$-edge-colored, then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Hung-Lin Fu , Yuan-Hsun Lo , K. E. Perry , C. A. Rodger

An edge coloring of the $n$-vertex complete graph, $K_n$, is a Gallai coloring if it does not contain any rainbow triangle, that is, a triangle whose edges are colored with three distinct colors. We prove that for $n$ large and every $k$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-31 Josefran de Oliveira Bastos , Fabricio S. Benevides , Jie Han

Let G be an n-vertex graph that contains linearly many cherries (i.e., paths on 3 vertices), and let c be a coloring of the edges of the complete graph K_n such that at each vertex every color appears only constantly many times. In 1979,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-18 Benny Sudakov , Jan Volec

In this paper we study the randomly edge colored graph that is obtained by adding randomly colored random edges to an arbitrary randomly edge colored dense graph. In particular we ask how many colors and how many random edges are needed so…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-02 Michael Anastos , Alan Frieze