On the multicolor Turán conjecture for color-critical graphs

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Main Authors: Li, Xihe, Ma, Jie, Zheng, Zhiheng
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author Li, Xihe
Ma, Jie
Zheng, Zhiheng
author_facet Li, Xihe
Ma, Jie
Zheng, Zhiheng
contents A {\it simple $k$-coloring} of a multigraph $G$ is a decomposition of the edge multiset as a disjoint sum of $k$ simple graphs which are referred as colors. A subgraph $H$ of a multigraph $G$ is called {\it multicolored} if its edges receive distinct colors in a given simple $k$-coloring of $G$. In 2004, Keevash-Saks-Sudakov-Verstraëte introduced the {\it $k$-color Turán number} $ex_k(n,H)$, which denotes the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex multigraph that has a simple $k$-coloring containing no multicolored copies of $H$. They made a conjecture for any $r\geq 3$ and $r$-color-critical graph $H$ that in the range of $k\geq \frac{r-1}{r-2}(e(H)-1)$, if $n$ is sufficiently large, then $ex_k(n, H)$ is achieved by the multigraph consisting of $k$ colors all of which are identical copies of the Turán graph $T_{r-1}(n)$. In this paper, we show that this holds in the range of $k\geq 2\frac{r-1}{r}(e(H)-1)$, significantly improving earlier results. Our proof combines the stability argument of Chakraborti-Kim-Lee-Liu-Seo with a novel graph packing technique for embedding multigraphs.
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spellingShingle On the multicolor Turán conjecture for color-critical graphs
Li, Xihe
Ma, Jie
Zheng, Zhiheng
Combinatorics
A {\it simple $k$-coloring} of a multigraph $G$ is a decomposition of the edge multiset as a disjoint sum of $k$ simple graphs which are referred as colors. A subgraph $H$ of a multigraph $G$ is called {\it multicolored} if its edges receive distinct colors in a given simple $k$-coloring of $G$. In 2004, Keevash-Saks-Sudakov-Verstraëte introduced the {\it $k$-color Turán number} $ex_k(n,H)$, which denotes the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex multigraph that has a simple $k$-coloring containing no multicolored copies of $H$. They made a conjecture for any $r\geq 3$ and $r$-color-critical graph $H$ that in the range of $k\geq \frac{r-1}{r-2}(e(H)-1)$, if $n$ is sufficiently large, then $ex_k(n, H)$ is achieved by the multigraph consisting of $k$ colors all of which are identical copies of the Turán graph $T_{r-1}(n)$. In this paper, we show that this holds in the range of $k\geq 2\frac{r-1}{r}(e(H)-1)$, significantly improving earlier results. Our proof combines the stability argument of Chakraborti-Kim-Lee-Liu-Seo with a novel graph packing technique for embedding multigraphs.
title On the multicolor Turán conjecture for color-critical graphs
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.14905