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Weak rainbow saturation numbers of graphs

Combinatorics 2025-01-07 v1

Abstract

For a fixed graph HH, we say that an edge-colored graph GG is \emph{weakly HH-rainbow saturated} if there exists an ordering e1,e2,,eme_1, e_2, \ldots, e_m of E(G)E\left(\overline{G}\right) such that, for any list c1,c2,,cmc_1, c_2, \ldots, c_m of pairwise distinct colors from N\mathbb{N}, the non-edges eie_i in color cic_i can be added to GG, one at a time, so that every added edge creates a new rainbow copy of HH. The \emph{weak rainbow saturation number} of HH, denoted by rwsat(n,H)rwsat(n,H), is the minimum number of edges in a weakly HH-rainbow saturated graph on nn vertices. In this paper, we show that for any non-empty graph HH, the limit limnrwsat(n,H)n\lim_{n\to \infty} \frac{rwsat(n, H)}{n} exists. This answers a question of Behague, Johnston, Letzter, Morrison and Ogden [{\it SIAM J. Discrete Math.} (2023)]. We also provide lower and upper bounds on this limit, and in particular, we show that this limit is nonzero if and only if HH contains no pendant edges.

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@article{arxiv.2401.11525,
  title  = {Weak rainbow saturation numbers of graphs},
  author = {Xihe Li and Jie Ma and Tianying Xie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.11525},
  year   = {2025}
}

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13 pages, 1 figure

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