On a rainbow extremal problem for color-critical graphs

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Main Authors: Chakraborti, Debsoumya, Kim, Jaehoon, Lee, Hyunwoo, Liu, Hong, Seo, Jaehyeon
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author Chakraborti, Debsoumya
Kim, Jaehoon
Lee, Hyunwoo
Liu, Hong
Seo, Jaehyeon
author_facet Chakraborti, Debsoumya
Kim, Jaehoon
Lee, Hyunwoo
Liu, Hong
Seo, Jaehyeon
contents There has been extensive studies on the following question: given $k$ graphs $G_1,\dots, G_k$ over a common vertex set of size $n$, what conditions on $G_i$ ensures a `colorful' copy of $H$, i.e., a copy of $H$ containing at most one edge from each $G_i$? A lower bound on $\sum_{i\in [k]} e(G_i)$ enforcing a colorful copy of a given graph $H$ was considered by Keevash, Saks, Sudakov, and Verstraëte. They defined $\operatorname{ex}_k(n,H)$ to be the maximum total number of edges of the graphs $G_1,\dots, G_k$ on a common vertex set of size $n$ having no colorful copy of $H$. They completely determined $\operatorname{ex}_k(n,K_r)$ for large $n$ by showing that, depending on the value of $k$, one of the two natural constructions is always the extremal construction. Moreover, they conjectured the same holds for every color-critical graphs and proved it for 3-color-critical graphs. We prove their conjecture for 4-color-critical graphs and for almost all $r$-color-critical graphs when $r > 4$. Moreover, we show that for every non-color-critical non-bipartite graphs, none of the two natural constructions is extremal for certain values of $k$. This answers a question of Keevash, Saks, Sudakov, and Verstraëte.
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spellingShingle On a rainbow extremal problem for color-critical graphs
Chakraborti, Debsoumya
Kim, Jaehoon
Lee, Hyunwoo
Liu, Hong
Seo, Jaehyeon
Combinatorics
05C35, 05D99
There has been extensive studies on the following question: given $k$ graphs $G_1,\dots, G_k$ over a common vertex set of size $n$, what conditions on $G_i$ ensures a `colorful' copy of $H$, i.e., a copy of $H$ containing at most one edge from each $G_i$? A lower bound on $\sum_{i\in [k]} e(G_i)$ enforcing a colorful copy of a given graph $H$ was considered by Keevash, Saks, Sudakov, and Verstraëte. They defined $\operatorname{ex}_k(n,H)$ to be the maximum total number of edges of the graphs $G_1,\dots, G_k$ on a common vertex set of size $n$ having no colorful copy of $H$. They completely determined $\operatorname{ex}_k(n,K_r)$ for large $n$ by showing that, depending on the value of $k$, one of the two natural constructions is always the extremal construction. Moreover, they conjectured the same holds for every color-critical graphs and proved it for 3-color-critical graphs. We prove their conjecture for 4-color-critical graphs and for almost all $r$-color-critical graphs when $r > 4$. Moreover, we show that for every non-color-critical non-bipartite graphs, none of the two natural constructions is extremal for certain values of $k$. This answers a question of Keevash, Saks, Sudakov, and Verstraëte.
title On a rainbow extremal problem for color-critical graphs
topic Combinatorics
05C35, 05D99
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02575