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Rainbow common graphs must be forests

Combinatorics 2024-07-11 v2

Abstract

We study the rainbow version of the graph commonness property: a graph HH is rr-rainbow common if the number of rainbow copies of HH (where all edges have distinct colors) in an rr-coloring of edges of KnK_n is maximized asymptotically by independently coloring each edge uniformly at random. HH is \emph{rr-rainbow uncommon} otherwise. We show that if HH has a cycle, then it is rr-rainbow uncommon for every rr at least the number of edges of HH. This generalizes a result of Erd\H{o}s and Hajnal, and proves a conjecture of De Silva, Si, Tait, Tun\c{c}bilek, Yang, and Young.

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@article{arxiv.2311.18301,
  title  = {Rainbow common graphs must be forests},
  author = {Yihang Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.18301},
  year   = {2024}
}

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8 pages, 1 figure

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