High Girth Hypergraphs with Unavoidable Monochromatic or Rainbow Edges

Axenovich, Maria ; Karrer, Annette

Discussiones Mathematicae. Graph Theory, Tome 42 (2022) no. 2, pp. 471-484

Résumé

A classical result of Erdős and Hajnal claims that for any integers k, r, g ≥ 2 there is an r-uniform hypergraph of girth at least g with chromatic number at least k. This implies that there are sparse hypergraphs such that in any coloring of their vertices with at most k − 1 colors there is a monochromatic hyperedge. When there is no restriction on the number of the colors used, one can easily avoid monochromatic hyperedges. Then, however, so-called rainbow or multicolored hyperedges might appear. Nešetřil and Rödl [19] called hypergraphs such that in any vertex-coloring there is either a monochromatic or a rainbow hyperedge, selective. They showed an existence of selective r-uniform hypergraphs of girth g for any integers r, g ≥ 2 using probabilistic and explicit constructions. In this paper, we provide a slightly di erent construction of such hypergraphs and summarize the probabilistic approaches. The main building block of the construction, a part-rainbow-forced hypergraph, is of independent interest. This is an r-uniform r-partite hypergraph with a given girth such that in any vertex-coloring that is rainbow on each part, there is a rainbow hyperedge. We give a simple construction of such a hypergraph that does not use iterative amalgamation.

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Keywords: hypergraph, chromatic number, mixed hypergraph, bihyper-graphs, monochromatic, rainbow, girth, selective