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Monochromatic paths in random tournaments

Combinatorics 2018-12-11 v2

Abstract

We prove that, with high probability, any 22-edge-colouring of a random tournament on nn vertices contains a monochromatic path of length Ω(n/logn)\Omega(n / \sqrt{\log n}). This resolves a conjecture of Ben-Eliezer, Krivelevich and Sudakov and implies a nearly tight upper bound on the oriented size Ramsey number of a directed path.

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@article{arxiv.1703.10424,
  title  = {Monochromatic paths in random tournaments},
  author = {Matija Bucić and Shoham Letzter and Benny Sudakov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.10424},
  year   = {2018}
}
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