eprintid: 10192107 rev_number: 9 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/19/21/07 datestamp: 2024-05-14 11:05:43 lastmod: 2024-05-14 11:05:43 status_changed: 2024-05-14 11:05:43 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Behague, Natalie creators_name: Johnston, Tom creators_name: Letzter, Shoham creators_name: Morrison, Natasha creators_name: Ogden, Shannon title: The Rainbow Saturation Number Is Linear ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C06 divisions: F59 keywords: edge-coloring, Mathematics, Mathematics, Applied, Physical Sciences, rainbow, saturation, Science & Technology note: This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: Given a graphH, we say that an edge-colored graphGisH-rainbow saturated ifit does not contain a rainbow copy ofH, but the addition of any nonedge in any color creates arainbow copy ofH. The rainbow saturation number rsat(n,H) is the minimum number of edgesamong allH-rainbow saturated edge-colored graphs onnvertices. We prove that for any nonemptygraphH, the rainbow saturation number is linear inn, thus proving a conjecture of Gir\~ao, Lewis,and Popielarz. In addition, we give an improved upper bound on the rainbow saturation number ofthe complete graph, disproving a second conjecture of Gir\~ao, Lewis, and Popielarz. date: 2024-06 date_type: published publisher: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1137/23m1566881 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2271967 doi: 10.1137/23M1566881 lyricists_name: Letzter, Shoham lyricists_id: SLETZ34 actors_name: Letzter, Shoham actors_id: SLETZ34 actors_role: owner funding_acknowledgements: [PIMS postdoctoral fellowship]; [Royal Society]; RGPIN-2021-02511 [NSERC]; DGECR-2021-00047 [NSERC Early Career Supplement]; [NSERC CGS M] full_text_status: public publication: SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics volume: 38 number: 2 pagerange: 1239-1249 pages: 11 issn: 0895-4801 citation: Behague, Natalie; Johnston, Tom; Letzter, Shoham; Morrison, Natasha; Ogden, Shannon; (2024) The Rainbow Saturation Number Is Linear. SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics , 38 (2) pp. 1239-1249. 10.1137/23M1566881 <https://doi.org/10.1137/23M1566881>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10192107/7/Letzter_23m1566881.pdf