Rainbow trees in uniformly edge-coloured graphs
Abstract
We obtain sufficient conditions for the emergence of spanning and almost-spanning bounded-degree {\sl rainbow} trees in various host graphs, having their edges coloured independently and uniformly at random, using a predetermined palette. Our first result asserts that a uniform colouring of , using a palette of size , a.a.s. admits a rainbow copy of any given bounded-degree tree on at most vertices, where is arbitrarily small yet fixed. This serves as a rainbow variant of a classical result by Alon, Krivelevich, and Sudakov pertaining to the embedding of bounded-degree almost-spanning prescribed trees in , where is independent of . Given an -vertex graph with minimum degree at least , where is fixed, we use our aforementioned result in order to prove that a uniform colouring of the randomly perturbed graph , using colours, where is arbitrarily small yet fixed, a.a.s. admits a rainbow copy of any given bounded-degree {\sl spanning} tree. This can be viewed as a rainbow variant of a result by Krivelevich, Kwan, and Sudakov who proved that , where is independent of , a.a.s. admits a copy of any given bounded-degree spanning tree. Finally, and with as above, we prove that a uniform colouring of using colours a.a.s. admits a rainbow spanning tree. Put another way, the trivial lower bound on the size of the palette required for supporting a rainbow spanning tree is also sufficient, essentially as soon as the random perturbation a.a.s. has edges.
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@article{arxiv.2105.08315,
title = {Rainbow trees in uniformly edge-coloured graphs},
author = {Elad Aigner-Horev and Dan Hefetz and Abhiruk Lahiri},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.08315},
year = {2021}
}
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19 pages