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Chromatic number is Ramsey distinguishing

Combinatorics 2022-03-10 v2

Abstract

A graph GG is Ramsey for a graph HH if every colouring of the edges of GG in two colours contains a monochromatic copy of HH. Two graphs H1H_1 and H2H_2 are Ramsey equivalent if any graph GG is Ramsey for H1H_1 if and only if it is Ramsey for H2H_2. A graph parameter ss is Ramsey distinguishing if s(H1)s(H2)s(H_1)\neq s(H_2) implies that H1H_1 and H2H_2 are not Ramsey equivalent. In this paper we show that the chromatic number is a Ramsey distinguishing parameter. We also extend this to the multi-colour case and use a similar idea to find another graph parameter which is Ramsey distinguishing.

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@article{arxiv.1909.02590,
  title  = {Chromatic number is Ramsey distinguishing},
  author = {Michael Savery},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.02590},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

v2: 12 pages, 1 figure. Minor revisions including the addition of a discussion of 2-density as a distinguishing parameter in Sections 1 and 3.2, and a discussion of the asymmetric version of the problem in Section 3.1