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Chromatic Ramsey numbers and two-color Tur\'{a}n densities

Combinatorics 2024-09-13 v1

Abstract

Given a graph GG, its 22-color Tur\'{a}n number ex(2)(n,G)\mathrm{ex}^{(2)}(n,G) is the largest number of edges in an nn-vertex graph whose edges can be colored with two colors avoiding a monochromatic copy of GG. Let π(2)(G)=limnex(2)(n,G)/(n2)\pi^{(2)}(G)=\lim_{n\to\infty}\mathrm{ex}^{(2)}(n,G)/\binom{n}{2} be the 22-color Tur\'{a}n density of GG. What real numbers in the interval (0,1)(0,1) are realized as the 22-color Tur\'{a}n density of some graph? It is known that π(2)(G)=1(Rχ(G)1)1\pi^{(2)}(G)=1-(R_{\chi}(G)-1)^{-1}, where Rχ(G)R_{\chi}(G) is the chromatic Ramsey number of GG. However, determining specific values of Rχ(G)R_{\chi}(G) is challenging. Burr, Erd\H{o}s, and Lov\'{a}sz showed that (k1)2+1Rχ(G)R(k)(k-1)^2+1\leqslant{R_{\chi}(G)}\leqslant{R(k)}, for any kk-chromatic graph GG, where R(k)R(k) is the classical Ramsey number. The upper bound here can be attained by a clique and the lower bound is achieved by a graph constructed by Zhu. To the best of our knowledge, there are no other, besides these two, known values of Rχ(G)R_{\chi}(G) among kk-chromatic graphs GG for general kk. In this paper we prove that there are Ω(k)\Omega(k) different values of Rχ(G)R_{\chi}(G) among kk-chromatic graphs GG. In addition, we determine a new value for the chromatic Ramsey numbers of 44-chromatic graphs. This sheds more light into the possible 22-color Tur\'{a}n densities of graphs.

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@article{arxiv.2409.07535,
  title  = {Chromatic Ramsey numbers and two-color Tur\'{a}n densities},
  author = {Maria Axenovich and Simon Gaa and Dingyuan Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.07535},
  year   = {2024}
}

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17 pages, 3 figures