Erdős Problem #1105 — The anti-Ramsey number AR(n,G)\mathrm{AR}(n,G) is the maximum possible number of colours in which the edges of KnK_n can be coloured without creating a rainbow copy of GG (i.

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The anti-Ramsey number AR(n,G)\mathrm{AR}(n,G) is the maximum possible number of colours in which the edges of KnK_n can be coloured without creating a rainbow copy of GG (i.e. one in which all edges have different colours). Let CkC_k be the cycle on kk vertices. Is it true that AR(n,Ck)=(k−22+1k−1)n+O(1)?\mathrm{AR}(n,C_k)=\left(\frac{k-2}{2}+\frac{1}{k-1}\right)n+O(1)? Let PkP_k be the path on kk vertices and ℓ=⌊k−12⌋\ell=\lfloor\frac{k-1}{2}\rfloor. If n≥k≥5n\geq k\geq 5 then is AR(n,Pk)\mathrm{AR}(n,P_k) equal to max⁡((k−22)+1,(ℓ−12)+(ℓ−1)(n−ℓ+1)+ϵ)\max\left(\binom{k-2}{2}+1, \binom{\ell-1}{2}+(\ell-1)(n-\ell+1)+\epsilon\right) where ϵ=1\epsilon=1 if kk is odd and ϵ=2\epsilon=2 otherwise?

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