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Defective Ramsey Numbers and Defective Cocolorings in Some Subclasses of Perfect Graphs

Combinatorics 2021-07-27 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate a variant of Ramsey numbers called defective Ramsey numbers where cliques and independent sets are generalized to kk-dense and kk-sparse sets, both commonly called kk-defective sets. We focus on the computation of defective Ramsey numbers restricted to some subclasses of perfect graphs. Since direct proof techniques are often insufficient for obtaining new values of defective Ramsey numbers, we provide a generic algorithm to compute defective Ramsey numbers in a given target graph class. We combine direct proof techniques with our efficient graph generation algorithm to compute several new defective Ramsey numbers in perfect graphs, bipartite graphs and chordal graphs. We also initiate the study of a related parameter, denoted by ckG(m)c^{\mathcal G}_k(m), which is the maximum order nn such that the vertex set of any graph of order at nn in a class G\mathcal{G} can be partitioned into at most mm subsets each of which is kk-defective. We obtain several values for ckG(m)c^{\mathcal G}_k(m) in perfect graphs and cographs.

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@article{arxiv.2107.12031,
  title  = {Defective Ramsey Numbers and Defective Cocolorings in Some Subclasses of Perfect Graphs},
  author = {Yunus Emre Demirci and Tınaz Ekim and Mehmet Akif Yıldız},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.12031},
  year   = {2021}
}

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21 pages