On the anti-Ramsey threshold

Abstract

We say that a graph $G$ is anti-Ramsey for a graph $H$ if any proper edge-colouring of $G$ yields a rainbow copy of $H$, i.e. a copy of $H$ whose edges all receive different colours. In this work we determine the threshold at which the binomial random graph becomes anti-Ramsey for any fixed graph $H$, given that $H$ is sufficiently dense. Our proof employs a graph decomposition lemma in the style of the Nine Dragon Tree theorem, which may be of independent interest.