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Bounded VC-dimension implies the Schur-Erdos conjecture

Combinatorics 2019-12-06 v1

Abstract

In 1916, Schur introduced the Ramsey number r(3;m)r(3;m), which is the minimum integer nn such that for any mm-coloring of the edges of the complete graph KnK_n, there is a monochromatic copy of K3K_3. He showed that r(3;m)O(m!)r(3;m) \leq O(m!), and a simple construction demonstrates that r(3;m)2Ω(m)r(3;m) \geq 2^{\Omega(m)}. An old conjecture of Erd\H os states that r(3;m)=2Θ(m)r(3;m) = 2^{\Theta(m)}. In this note, we prove the conjecture for mm-colorings with bounded VC-dimension, that is, for mm-colorings with the property that the set system F\mathcal{F} induced by the neighborhoods of the vertices with respect to each color class has bounded VC-dimension.

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@article{arxiv.1912.02342,
  title  = {Bounded VC-dimension implies the Schur-Erdos conjecture},
  author = {Jacob Fox and Janos Pach and Andrew Suk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.02342},
  year   = {2019}
}
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