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Thresholds for constrained Ramsey and anti-Ramsey problems

Behague, Natalie orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-6616-1606, Hancock, Robert, Hyde, Joseph, Letzter, Shoham and Morrison, Natasha (2025) Thresholds for constrained Ramsey and anti-Ramsey problems. European Journal of Combinatorics, 129 . p. 104159. ISSN 01956698

Abstract
Let H1 and H2 be graphs. A graph G has the constrained Ramsey property for (H1, H2) if every edge-colouring of G contains either a monochromatic copy of H1 or a rainbow copy of H2. Our main result gives a 0-statement for the constrained Ramsey property in G(n, p) whenever H1 = K1,k for some k ≥ 3 and H2 is not a forest. Along with previous work of Kohayakawa, Konstadinidis and Mota, this resolves the constrained Ramsey property for all non-trivial cases with the exception of H1 = K1,2, which is equivalent to the anti-Ramsey property for H2. For a fixed graph H, we say that G has the anti-Ramsey property for H if any proper edge-colouring of G contains a rainbow copy of H. We show that the 0-statement for the anti-Ramsey problem in G(n, p) can be reduced to a (necessary) colouring statement, and use this to find the threshold for the anti-Ramsey property for some particular families of graphs.
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Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Combinatorics
Subjects:Mathematics
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science and Health > School of Mathematical Sciences
Publisher:Elsevier Ltd
Official URL:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/...
Copyright Information:Authors
ID Code:33295
Deposited On:31 Aug 2026 13:52 by Natalie Behague . Last Modified 31 Aug 2026 13:52
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