Density of monochromatic infinite subgraphs
Abstract
For any countably infinite graph , Ramsey's theorem guarantees an infinite monochromatic copy of in any -coloring of the edges of the countably infinite complete graph . Taking this a step further, it is natural to wonder how "large" of a monochromatic copy of we can find with respect to some measure -- for instance, the density (or upper density) of the vertex set of in the positive integers. Unlike finite Ramsey theory, where this question has been studied extensively, the analogous problem for infinite graphs has been mostly overlooked. In one of the few results in the area, Erd\H{o}s and Galvin proved that in every 2-coloring of , there exists a monochromatic path whose vertex set has upper density at least , but it is not possible to do better than . They also showed that for some sequence , there exists a monochromatic path such that for infinitely many , the set contains the first vertices of , but it is not possible to do better than . We improve both results, in the former case achieving an upper density at least and in the latter case obtaining a tight bound of . We also consider related problems for directed paths, trees (connected subgraphs), and a more general result which includes locally finite graphs for instance.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1611.05423,
title = {Density of monochromatic infinite subgraphs},
author = {Louis DeBiasio and Paul McKenney},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.05423},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
24 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Combinatorica. We discovered that Theorem 6.2 from version 2 of this paper contained an irreparable error. As Theorem 6.2 was independent of the rest of the paper, we have simply removed Subsection 6.1 (which contained Theorem 6.2) from the final version