Canonical Ramsey: triangles, rectangles and beyond
Abstract
In a seminal work, Cheng and Xu showed that if is a square or a triangle with a certain property, then for every positive integer there exists independent of such that every -coloring of with contains a monochromatic or a rainbow congruent copy of . Geh\'{e}r, Sagdeev, and T\'{o}th formalized this dimension independence as the canonical Ramsey property and proved it for all hypercubes, thereby covering rectangles whose squared aspect ratio is rational. They asked whether this property holds for all triangles and for all rectangles. (1) We resolve both questions. More precisely, for triangles we confirm the property in by developing a novel rotation-sphereical chaining argument. For rectangles, we introduce a structural reduction to product configurations of bounded color complexity, enabling the use of the simplex Ramsey theorem together with product Ramsey theorem. (2) Beyond this, we develop a concise perturbation framework based on an iterative embedding coupled with the Frankl-R\"{o}dl simplex super-Ramsey theorem, which yields the canonical Ramsey property for a natural class of 3-dimensional simplices and also furnishes an alternative proof for triangles.
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@article{arxiv.2510.11638,
title = {Canonical Ramsey: triangles, rectangles and beyond},
author = {Yijia Fang and Gennian Ge and Yang Shu and Qian Xu and Zixiang Xu and Dilong Yang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.11638},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
27 pages, 8 figures. Supersedes arXiv:2508.02465. The results of the earlier preprint (by three of the authors) have been merged into the present manuscript, and the earlier preprint will not be published separately