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A (5,5)-Colouring of Kn with Few Colours

Part of: Graph theory Extremal combinatorics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 May 2018

ALEX CAMERON  and
EMILY HEATH
ALEX CAMERON
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA (e-mail: acamer4@uic.edu)
EMILY HEATH
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA (e-mail: eheath3@illinois.edu)
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Abstract

For fixed integers p and q, let f(n,p,q) denote the minimum number of colours needed to colour all of the edges of the complete graph Kn such that no clique of p vertices spans fewer than q distinct colours. Any edge-colouring with this property is known as a (p,q)-colouring. We construct an explicit (5,5)-colouring that shows that f(n,5,5) ≤ n1/3 + o(1) as n → ∞. This improves upon the best known probabilistic upper bound of O(n1/2) given by Erdős and Gyárfás, and comes close to matching the best known lower bound Ω(n1/3).

MSC classification

Primary: 05C55: Generalized Ramsey theory
Secondary: 05C35: Extremal problems 05C25: Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) 05D10: Ramsey theory

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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 27 , Issue 6 , November 2018 , pp. 892 - 912
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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