Multicolour Turán problems
Multicolour Turán problems
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多色图兰问题
DOI:
10.1016/j.aam.2003.08.005
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发表时间:
2004
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通讯作者:
Jacques Verstraëte
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作者:
Peter Keevash;M. Saks;B. Sudakov;Jacques Verstraëte
A simple k-colouring of a multigraph G is a decomposition of the edge multiset as the sum of k simple graphs, called ‘colours’. A copy of some fixed graph H in G is called multicoloured if its edges all have distinct colours. Recall that the Turán number ex(n,H) of H is the maximum number of edges in a graph on n vertices not containing a copy of H. We consider a multicolour generalisation exk(n,H), defined as the maximum number of edges in a multigraph on n vertices, that has a simple k-colouring not containing a multicoloured copy of H. A natural construction of such a multigraph is k copies of a fixed extremal graph for H. We show that this is optimal for sufficiently large k=k(n), i.e., exk(n,H)=k·ex(n,H), and moreover only this construction achieves equality. For k⩽e(H)−1 one can take k copies of the complete graph without creating a multicoloured copy of H, so this is trivially the best possible construction. Even for k⩾e(H), we should consider a competing construction along these lines, namely e(H)−1 copies of the complete graph Kn. When H=Krand n is large, the optimal construction is always one of these two, i.e., [Formula: see text] We prove a similar result for 3-colour-critical graphs. We also have some partial results for bipartite graphs. In particular, there are constants c<C so that for infinitely many values of n [Formula: see text]