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On the structural growth of bipartite Ramsey numbers

Combinatorics 2026-04-29 v3

Abstract

Bipartite Ramsey numbers is the smallest size of a complete bipartite graph KN,NK_{N,N} such that every edge-coloring with a given number of colors inevitably yields a monochromatic copy of a prescribed bipartite graph. While exact values have been determined for certain specific graphs, the general asymptotic behavior of these numbers in terms of structural graph parameters remains poorly understood. In this paper, we investigate structure-dependent growth phenomena in bipartite Ramsey theory. For a fixed bipartite graph GG with pp vertices and qq edges, we first establish a lower bound of the form br(G,Kn,n)>C(nlogn)(q1)/(p2)\operatorname{br}(G,K_{n,n}) > C \bigl(\frac{n}{\log n}\bigr)^{(q-1)/(p-2)}. As a corollary, we show that sufficiently dense bipartite graphs fail to be bipartite Ramsey size linear. Turning to even cycles and complete bipartite graphs, we obtain an upper bound on the multicolor bipartite Ramsey number brk(C2t;Kn,n)ct,kn2/log2n\operatorname{br}_k(C_{2t};K_{n,n}) \le c_{t,k}\, n^2/\log^2 n, which follows from classical estimates for Zarankiewicz numbers together with a double-counting argument. Building on this result, we further derive a refined linear upper bound of the form br(C2t,G)m2+29tm2\operatorname{br}(C_{2t},G) \le \frac{m}{2} + \frac{29t\sqrt{m}}{2}, valid for any connected bipartite graph GG with mm edges and no isolated vertices.

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@article{arxiv.2604.20668,
  title  = {On the structural growth of bipartite Ramsey numbers},
  author = {Meng Ji},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.20668},
  year   = {2026}
}

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