Monochromatic components with many edges in random graphs
Abstract
In an -coloring of edges of the complete graph on vertices, how many edges are there in the largest monochromatic connected component? A construction of Gy\'arf\'as shows that for infinitely many values of , there exist colorings where all monochromatic components have at most edges. Conlon, Luo, and Tyomkyn conjectured that components with at least this many edges are attainable for all . This was proven by Luo for , along with a lower bound of for all , and by Conlon, Luo, and Tyomkyn for . In this paper, we look at extensions of this problem where the graph being -colored is a sparse random graph or a graph of high minimum degree. By extending several intermediate technical results from previous work in the complete graph setting, we prove analogues of the bound for general in both the sparse random setting and the high minimum degree setting, as well as the bound for in the latter setting.
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@article{arxiv.2509.01766,
title = {Monochromatic components with many edges in random graphs},
author = {Hannah Fox and Sammy Luo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.01766},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
15 pages, comments welcome. Edited to correct attribution error in abstract