On the two problems in Ramsey achievement games
Abstract
Let be two integers with . Given a finite graph with no isolated vertices, the generalized Ramsey achievement game of on the complete graph , denoted by , is played by two players called Alice and Bob. In each round, Alice firstly chooses uncolored edges and colors it blue, then Bob chooses uncolored edge and colors it red; the player who can first complete the formation of in his (or her) color is the winner. The generalized achievement number of , denoted by is defined to be the smallest for which Alice has a winning strategy. If , then it is denoted by , which is the classical achievement number of introduced by Harary in 1982. If Alice aims to form a blue , and the goal of Bob is to try to stop him, this kind of game is called the first player game by Bollob\'{a}s. Let be the smallest positive integer for which Alice has a winning strategy in the first player game. A conjecture due to Harary states that the minimum value of is realized when is a path and the maximum value of is realized when is a star among all trees of order . He also asked which graphs satisfy ? In this paper, we proved that for all trees of order , and obtained a lower bound of , where is a star. We proved that the minimum value of is realized when is a path which gives a positive solution to the first part of Harary's conjecture, and for all trees of order . We also proved that for , we have with the help of a theorem of Alon, Krivelevich, Spencer and Szab\'o. We proved that for a path .
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@article{arxiv.2408.01479,
title = {On the two problems in Ramsey achievement games},
author = {Zhong Huang and Yusuke Kobayashi and Yaping Mao and Bo Ning and Xiumin Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.01479},
year = {2024}
}
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13 pages