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In this work, we collect Ramsey-type results concerning rainbow edge colorings of graphs.

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S. Fujita was supported by JSPS Grant No. 20740068. K. Ozeki was supported by JSPS Research Fellowships for Young Scientists.

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Fujita, S., Magnant, C. & Ozeki, K. Rainbow Generalizations of Ramsey Theory: A Survey. Graphs and Combinatorics 26, 1–30 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00373-010-0891-3

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