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Rainbow Turán bound for cycles

Prove that every n-vertex properly edge-coloured graph with no rainbow cycles has at most O(n log n) edges.

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Background

The hypercube Q_d shows the lower bound Ω(n log n). Janzer, Tomon, and later Janzer–Sudakov and Kim–Lee–Liu–Tran proved upper bounds O(n (log n)4), O(n (log n){2+o(1)}), and O(n (log n)2). The conjectured O(n log n) bound remains open and would be tight up to constants.

References

Conjecture [Keevash--Mubayi--Sudakov--Verstra"ete ] Every n-vertex properly edge-coloured graph with no rainbow cycles has O(n log n) edges.

Sublinear expanders and their applications (2401.10865 - Letzter, 19 Jan 2024) in Rainbow clique subdivisions (Section 7.2)