English

Thresholds for constrained Ramsey and anti-Ramsey problems

Combinatorics 2025-03-27 v2

Abstract

Let H1H_1 and H2H_2 be graphs. A graph GG has the constrained Ramsey property for (H1,H2)(H_1,H_2) if every edge-colouring of GG contains either a monochromatic copy of H1H_1 or a rainbow copy of H2H_2. Our main result gives a 0-statement for the constrained Ramsey property in G(n,p)G(n,p) whenever H1=K1,kH_1 = K_{1,k} for some k3k \ge 3 and H2H_2 is not a forest. Along with previous work of Kohayakawa, Konstadinidis and Mota, this resolves the constrained Ramsey property for all non-trivial cases with the exception of H1=K1,2H_1 = K_{1,2}, which is equivalent to the anti-Ramsey property for H2H_2. For a fixed graph HH, we say that GG has the anti-Ramsey property for HH if any proper edge-colouring of GG contains a rainbow copy of HH. We show that the 0-statement for the anti-Ramsey problem in G(n,p)G(n,p) can be reduced to a (necessary) colouring statement, and use this to find the threshold for the anti-Ramsey property for some particular families of graphs.

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@article{arxiv.2401.06881,
  title  = {Thresholds for constrained Ramsey and anti-Ramsey problems},
  author = {Natalie Behague and Robert Hancock and Joseph Hyde and Shoham Letzter and Natasha Morrison},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.06881},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

27 pages, 2 figures, author accepted manuscript, to appear in European Journal of Combinatorics

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