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Given a matroid together with a coloring of its ground set, a subset of its elements is called rainbow colored if no two of its elements have the same color. We show that if a binary matroid of rank $r$ is colored with exactly $r$ colors,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-02 Kristóf Bérczi , Tamás Schwarcz

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

Ramsey's theorem states that for any coloring of the n-element subsets of N with finitely many colors, there is an infinite set H such that all n-element subsets of H have the same color. The strength of consequences of Ramsey's theorem has…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Ludovic Patey

If we want to color $1,2,\ldots,n$ with the property that all 3-term arithmetic progressions are rainbow (that is, their elements receive 3 distinct colors), then, obviously, we need to use at least $n/2$ colors. Surprisingly, much fewer…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-17 János Pach , István Tomon

Given graphs $G$ and $H$ and a positive integer $k$, the \emph{Gallai-Ramsey number}, denoted by $gr_{k}(G : H)$ is defined to be the minimum integer $n$ such that every coloring of $K_{n}$ using at most $k$ colors will contain either a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Xihe Li , Pierre Besse , Colton Magnant , Ligong Wang , Noah Watts

In this note, we prove that any 2-coloring of the plane contains 4 points of the same color forming a rhombus with unit sides and non-unit diagonals, answering a question of Axenovich, Liu, and the second author.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Kenneth Moore , Arsenii Sagdeev

One of the toughest problems in Ramsey theory is to determine the existence of monochromatic arithmetic progressions in groups whose elements have been colored. We study the harder problem to not only determine the existence of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Erik Sjöland

For positive integers $t$ and $n$ let $C_t^n$ be the $n$-cube over $t$ elements, that is, the set of ordered $n$-tuples over the alphabet $\{0,\dots, t-1\}$. We address the question of whether a balanced finite coloring of $C_t^n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-21 Amanda Montejano

We prove that for any planar convex body C there is a positive integer m with the property that any finite point set P in the plane can be three-colored such that there is no translate of C containing at least m points of P, all of the same…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Gábor Damásdi , Dömötör Pálvölgyi

In a seminal work, Cheng and Xu showed that if $S$ is a square or a triangle with a certain property, then for every positive integer $r$ there exists $n_0(S)$ independent of $r$ such that every $r$-coloring of $\mathbb{E}^n$ with $n\ge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Yijia Fang , Gennian Ge , Yang Shu , Qian Xu , Zixiang Xu , Dilong Yang

In a seminal work, Cheng and Xu proved that for any positive integer \(r\), there exists an integer \(n_0\), independent of \(r\), such that every \(r\)-coloring of the \(n\)-dimensional Euclidean space \(\mathbb{E}^n\) with \(n \ge n_0\)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Gennian Ge , Yang Shu , Zixiang Xu

When many colors appear in edge-colored graphs, it is only natural to expect rainbow subgraphs to appear. This anti-Ramsey problem has been studied thoroughly and yet there remain many gaps in the literature. Expanding upon classical and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-30 Chuandong Xu , Colton Magnant , Shenggui Zhang

In this short note, we present a purely entropic proof that in a $3$-edge-colored simple graph with $R$ red edges, $G$ green edges, and $B$ blue edges, the number of rainbow triangles is at most $\sqrt{2RGB}$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-22 Ting-Wei Chao , Hung-Hsun Hans Yu

We show that if we color the hyperedges of the complete $3$-uniform complete graph on $2n+\sqrt{18n+1}+2$ vertices with $n$ colors, then one of the color classes contains a loose path of length three.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Tomasz Łuczak , Joanna Polcyn

The chromatic number of an planar graph is not greater than four and this is known by the famous four color theorem and is equal to two when the planar graph is bipartite. When the planar graph is even-triangulated or all cycles are greater…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-01-20 I. Cahit

The celebrated canonical Ramsey theorem of Erd\H{o}s and Rado implies that for $2\leq k\in \mathbb{N}$, any colouring of the edges of $K_n$ with $n$ sufficiently large gives a copy of $C_{2k}$ which has one of three canonical colour…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-25 José D. Alvarado , Y. Kohayakawa , Patrick Morris , Guilherme O. Mota

Ramsey's theorem, in the version of Erd\H{o}s and Szekeres, states that every 2-coloring of the edges of the complete graph on {1, 2,...,n} contains a monochromatic clique of order 1/2\log n. In this paper, we consider two well-studied…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-19 David Conlon , Jacob Fox , Benny Sudakov

This is a treatise on finite point configurations spanning a fixed volume to be found in a single color-class of an arbitrary finite (measurable) coloring of the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^n$, or in a single large measurable subset…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Vjekoslav Kovač

The Four Colour Theorem asserts that the vertices of every plane graph can be properly coloured with four colors. Fabrici and G\"oring conjectured the following stronger statement to also hold: the vertices of every plane graph can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-05 Alex Wendland

A colored complete graph is said to be Gallai-colored if it contains no rainbow triangle. This property has been shown to be equivalent to the existence of a partition of the vertices (of every induced subgraph) in which at most two colors…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-29 Colton Magnant , Zhuojun Magnant