A rainbow version of Mantel's Theorem
Advances in Combinatorics (2020)
Mantel's Theorem asserts that a simple $n$ vertex graph with more than $\frac{1}{4}n^2$ edges has a triangle (three mutually adjacent vertices). Here we consider a rainbow variant of this problem. We prove that whenever $G_1, G_2, G_3$ are simple graphs on a common set of $n$ vertices and $|E(G_i)| > ( \frac{ 26 - 2 \sqrt{7} }{81})n^2 \approx 0.2557 n^2$ for $1 \le i \le 3$, then there exist distinct vertices $v_1,v_2,v_3$ so that (working with the indices modulo 3) we have $v_i v_{i+1} \in E(G_i)$ for $1 \le i \le 3$. We provide an example to show this bound is best possible. This also answers a question of Diwan and Mubayi. We include a new short proof of Mantel's Theorem we obtained as a byproduct.
@article{ADVC_2020_a10,
author = {Ron Aharoni and Matt DeVos and Sebasti\'an Gonz\'alez Hermosillo de la Maza and Amanda Montejano and Robert \v{S}\'amal},
title = {A rainbow version of {Mantel's} {Theorem}},
journal = {Advances in Combinatorics},
year = {2020},
language = {en},
url = {http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/ADVC_2020_a10/}
}
Ron Aharoni; Matt DeVos; Sebastián González Hermosillo de la Maza; Amanda Montejano; Robert Šámal. A rainbow version of Mantel's Theorem. Advances in Combinatorics (2020). http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/ADVC_2020_a10/