22 research outputs found
Rainbow saturation and graph capacities
The -colored rainbow saturation number is the minimum size
of a -edge-colored graph on vertices that contains no rainbow copy of
, but the addition of any missing edge in any color creates such a rainbow
copy. Barrus, Ferrara, Vandenbussche and Wenger conjectured that for every and . In this short
note we prove the conjecture in a strong sense, asymptotically determining the
rainbow saturation number for triangles. Our lower bound is probabilistic in
spirit, the upper bound is based on the Shannon capacity of a certain family of
cliques.Comment: 5 pages, minor change
Covering graphs by monochromatic trees and Helly-type results for hypergraphs
How many monochromatic paths, cycles or general trees does one need to cover
all vertices of a given -edge-coloured graph ? These problems were
introduced in the 1960s and were intensively studied by various researchers
over the last 50 years. In this paper, we establish a connection between this
problem and the following natural Helly-type question in hypergraphs. Roughly
speaking, this question asks for the maximum number of vertices needed to cover
all the edges of a hypergraph if it is known that any collection of a few
edges of has a small cover. We obtain quite accurate bounds for the
hypergraph problem and use them to give some unexpected answers to several
questions about covering graphs by monochromatic trees raised and studied by
Bal and DeBiasio, Kohayakawa, Mota and Schacht, Lang and Lo, and Gir\~ao,
Letzter and Sahasrabudhe.Comment: 20 pages including references plus 2 pages of an Appendi
Minimum degree conditions for monochromatic cycle partitioning
A classical result of Erd\H{o}s, Gy\'arf\'as and Pyber states that any
-edge-coloured complete graph has a partition into
monochromatic cycles. Here we determine the minimum degree threshold for this
property. More precisely, we show that there exists a constant such that
any -edge-coloured graph on vertices with minimum degree at least has a partition into monochromatic cycles. We also
provide constructions showing that the minimum degree condition and the number
of cycles are essentially tight.Comment: 22 pages (26 including appendix
Separating path systems
We study separating systems of the edges of a graph where each member of the
separating system is a path. We conjecture that every -vertex graph admits a
separating path system of size and prove this in certain interesting
special cases. In particular, we establish this conjecture for random graphs
and graphs with linear minimum degree. We also obtain tight bounds on the size
of a minimal separating path system in the case of trees.Comment: 21 pages, fixed misprints, Journal of Combinatoric
Monochromatic cycle covers in random graphs
A classic result of Erd\H{o}s, Gy\'arf\'as and Pyber states that for every
coloring of the edges of with colors, there is a cover of its vertex
set by at most vertex-disjoint monochromatic cycles. In
particular, the minimum number of such covering cycles does not depend on the
size of but only on the number of colors. We initiate the study of this
phenomena in the case where is replaced by the random graph . Given a fixed integer and , we
show that with high probability the random graph has
the property that for every -coloring of the edges of , there is a
collection of monochromatic cycles covering all the
vertices of . Our bound on is close to optimal in the following sense:
if , then with high probability there are colorings of
such that the number of monochromatic cycles needed to
cover all vertices of grows with .Comment: 24 pages, 1 figure (minor changes, added figure