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Gallai-Ramsey number of even cycles with chords

Combinatorics 2020-09-18 v3

Abstract

For a graph HH and an integer k1k\ge1, the kk-color Ramsey number Rk(H)R_k(H) is the least integer NN such that every kk-coloring of the edges of the complete graph KNK_N contains a monochromatic copy of HH. Let CmC_m denote the cycle on m4m\ge4 vertices and let Θm\Theta_m denote the family of graphs obtained from CmC_m by adding an additional edge joining two non-consecutive vertices. Unlike Ramsey number of odd cycles, little is known about the general behavior of Rk(C2n)R_k(C_{2n}) except that Rk(C2n)(n1)k+n+k1R_k(C_{2n})\ge (n-1)k+n+k-1 for all k2k\ge2 and n2n\ge2. In this paper, we study Ramsey number of even cycles with chords under Gallai colorings, where a Gallai coloring is a coloring of the edges of a complete graph without rainbow triangles. For an integer k1k\geq 1, the Gallai-Ramsey number GRk(H)GR_k(H) of a graph HH is the least positive integer NN such that every Gallai kk-coloring of the complete graph KNK_N contains a monochromatic copy of HH. We prove that GRk(Θ2n)=(n1)k+n+1GR_k(\Theta_{2n})=(n-1)k+n+1 for all k2k\geq 2 and n3n\geq 3. This implies that GRk(C2n)=(n1)k+n+1GR_k(C_{2n})=(n-1)k+n+1 all k2k\geq 2 and n3n\geq 3. Our result yields a unified proof for the Gallai-Ramsey number of all even cycles on at least four vertices.

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@article{arxiv.1906.05263,
  title  = {Gallai-Ramsey number of even cycles with chords},
  author = {Fangfang Zhang and Zi-Xia Song and Yaojun Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.05263},
  year   = {2020}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1809.00227