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Diagonal poset Ramsey numbers

Combinatorics 2024-02-22 v1

Abstract

A poset (Q,Q)(Q,\le_Q) contains an induced copy of a poset (P,P)(P,\le_P) if there exists an injective mapping ϕ ⁣:PQ\phi\colon P\to Q such that for any two elements X,YPX,Y\in P, XPYX\le_P Y if and only if ϕ(X)Qϕ(Y)\phi(X)\le_Q \phi(Y). By QnQ_n we denote the Boolean lattice (2[n],)(2^{[n]},\subseteq). The poset Ramsey number R(P,Q)R(P,Q) for posets PP and QQ is the least integer NN for which any coloring of the elements of QNQ_N in blue and red contains either a blue induced copy of PP or a red induced copy of QQ. In this paper, we show that R(Qm,Qn)nm(1o(1))nlogmR(Q_m,Q_n)\le nm-\big(1-o(1)\big)n\log m where nmn\ge m and mm is sufficiently large. This improves the best known upper bound on R(Qn,Qn)R(Q_n,Q_n) from n2n+2n^2-n+2 to n2(1o(1))nlognn^2-\big(1-o(1)\big) n\log n. Furthermore, we determine R(P,P)R(P,P) where PP is an nn-fork or nn-diamond up to an additive constant of 22. A poset (Q,Q)(Q,\le_Q) contains a weak copy of (P,P)(P,\le_P) if there is an injection ψ ⁣:PQ\psi\colon P\to Q such that ψ(X)Qψ(Y)\psi(X)\le_Q \psi(Y) for any X,YPX,Y\in P with XPYX\le_P Y. The weak poset Ramsey number Rw(P,Q)R^{\text{w}}(P,Q) is the smallest NN for which any blue/red-coloring of QNQ_N contains a blue weak copy of PP or a red weak copy of QQ. We show that Rw(Qn,Qn)0.96n2R^{\text{w}}(Q_n,Q_n)\le 0.96n^2.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2402.13423,
  title  = {Diagonal poset Ramsey numbers},
  author = {Maria Axenovich and Christian Winter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.13423},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

18 pages, 4 figures

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