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A New Lower Bound for the Ramsey Number R(4, 8)

Discrete Mathematics 2013-04-02 v3 Combinatorics

Abstract

The lower bound for the classical Ramsey number R(4, 8) is improved from 56 to 58. The author has found a new edge coloring of K_{57} that has no complete graphs of order 4 in the first color, and no complete graphs of order 8 in the second color. The coloring was found using a SAT solver which is based on MiniSat and customized for solving Ramsey problems.

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@article{arxiv.1212.1328,
  title  = {A New Lower Bound for the Ramsey Number R(4, 8)},
  author = {Hiroshi Fujita},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.1328},
  year   = {2013}
}