On the number of monotone sequences
Combinatorics
2014-05-28 v1
Abstract
One of the most classical results in Ramsey theory is the theorem of Erd\H{o}s and Szekeres from 1935, which says that every sequence of more than numbers contains a monotone subsequence of length . We address the following natural question motivated by this result: Given integers and with , how many monotone subsequences of length must every sequence of numbers contain? We answer this question precisely for all sufficiently large and , where is some absolute positive constant.
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@article{arxiv.1405.6894,
title = {On the number of monotone sequences},
author = {Wojciech Samotij and Benny Sudakov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.6894},
year = {2014}
}
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24 pages, 2 figures