On Balanced Coloring Games in Random Graphs

Consider the balanced Ramsey game, in which a player has r colors and where in each step r random edges of an initially empty graph on n vertices are presented. The player has to immediately assign a different color to each edge and her goal is to avoid creating a monochromatic copy of some fixed gr...

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Published inarXiv.org
Main Authors Gugelmann, Luca, Spöhel, Reto
Format Paper
LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 26.04.2013
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Apexes
Color
Games
Graph coloring
Graph theory
Graphs
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Summary:Consider the balanced Ramsey game, in which a player has r colors and where in each step r random edges of an initially empty graph on n vertices are presented. The player has to immediately assign a different color to each edge and her goal is to avoid creating a monochromatic copy of some fixed graph F for as long as possible. The Achlioptas game is similar, but the player only loses when she creates a copy of F in one distinguished color. We show that there is an infinite family of non-forests F for which the balanced Ramsey game has a different threshold than the Achlioptas game, settling an open question by Krivelevich et al. We also consider the natural vertex analogues of both games and show that their thresholds coincide for all graphs F, in contrast to our results for the edge case.
ISSN:2331-8422