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A step towards the Ramsey-Tur\'{a}n conjecture for $K_3$ and $K_6$

Combinatorics 2026-04-28 v3

Abstract

Ramsey-Tur\'{a}n type problems were initiated by Erd\H{o}s and S\'{o}s in 1969. Given integers p,q2p, q\ge2, a graph GG is (Kp,Kq)(K_p,K_q)-free if there exists a red/blue edge coloring of GG such that it contains neither a red KpK_p nor a blue KqK_q. For any δ>0\delta>0, the Ramsey-Tur\'{a}n number RT(n,p,q,δn)RT( {n,p,q,\delta n)} is the maximum number of edges in an nn-vertex (Kp,Kq)(K_p,K_q)-free graph with independence number at most δn\delta n. Let ρ(p,q,δ)=limnRT(n,p,q,δn)n2\rho (p, q,\delta ) = \mathop {\lim }\limits_{n \to \infty } \frac{RT(n,p, q,\delta n)}{n^2}. Kim, Kim and Liu (2019) showed that ρ(3,6,δ)512+δ2+2δ2\rho(3,6,\delta)\ge \frac{5}{12}+\frac{\delta}{2}+2\delta^2 via a skillful construction and conjectured the equality holds for sufficiently small δ>0\delta>0. Using Szemer\'{e}di's regularity lemma and a stability argument, we make the first step towards the conjecture by showing that ρ(3,6,δ)\rho(3,6,\delta) is at most 512+δ2+2.1025δ2\frac{5}{{12}} + \frac{\delta }{2}+ 2.1025\delta ^2.

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@article{arxiv.2409.04042,
  title  = {A step towards the Ramsey-Tur\'{a}n conjecture for $K_3$ and $K_6$},
  author = {Xinyu Hu and Qizhong Lin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.04042},
  year   = {2026}
}

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