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Unavoidable chromatic patterns in 2-colorings of the complete graph

Combinatorics 2019-04-09 v2

Abstract

We consider unavoidable chromatic patterns in 22-colorings of the edges of the complete graph. Several such problems are explored being a junction point between Ramsey theory, extremal graph theory (Tur\'an type problems), zero-sum Ramsey theory, and interpolation theorems in graph theory. A role-model of these problems is the following: Let GG be a graph with e(G)e(G) edges. We say that GG is omnitonal if there exists a function ot(n,G){\rm ot}(n,G) such that the following holds true for nn sufficiently large: For any 22-coloring f:E(Kn){red,blue}f: E(K_n) \to \{red, blue \} such that there are more than ot(n,G){\rm ot}(n,G) edges from each color, and for any pair of non-negative integers rr and bb with r+b=e(G)r+b = e(G), there is a copy of GG in KnK_n with exactly rr red edges and bb blue edges. We give a structural characterization of omnitonal graphs from which we deduce that omnitonal graphs are, in particular, bipartite graphs, and prove further that, for an omnitonal graph GG, ot(n,G)=O(n21m){\rm ot}(n,G) = \mathcal{O}(n^{2 - \frac{1}{m}}), where m=m(G)m = m(G) depends only on GG. We also present a class of graphs for which ot(n,G)=ex(n,G){\rm ot}(n,G) = ex(n,G), the celebrated Tur\'an numbers. Many more results and problems of similar flavor are presented.

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@article{arxiv.1810.12375,
  title  = {Unavoidable chromatic patterns in 2-colorings of the complete graph},
  author = {Yair Caro and Adriana Hansberg and Amanda Montejano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.12375},
  year   = {2019}
}

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27 pages

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