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arxiv: 1702.06227 · v1 · pith:E5SA6B4Onew · submitted 2017-02-21 · 🧮 math.CO

A (5,5)-coloring of K_n with few colors

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For fixed integers $p$ and $q$, let $f(n,p,q)$ denote the minimum number of colors needed to color all of the edges of the complete graph $K_n$ such that no clique of $p$ vertices spans fewer than $q$ distinct colors. Any edge-coloring with this property is known as a $(p,q)$-coloring. We construct an explicit $(5,5)$-coloring that shows that $f(n,5,5) \leq n^{1/3 + o(1)}$ as $n \rightarrow \infty$. This improves upon the best known probabilistic upper bound of $O\left(n^{1/2}\right)$ given by Erd\H{o}s and Gy\'{a}rf\'{a}s, and comes close to matching the best known lower bound $\Omega\left(n^{1/3}\right)$.

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