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Oriented Ramsey numbers of some sparse graphs

Combinatorics 2025-07-04 v2

Abstract

Let HH be an oriented graph without directed cycle. The oriented Ramsey number of HH, denoted by r(H)\overrightarrow{r}(H), is the smallest integer NN such that every tournament on NN vertices contains a copy of HH. Rosenfeld (JCT-B, 1974) conjectured that r(H)=H\overrightarrow{r}(H)=|H| if HH is a cycle of sufficiently large order, which was confirmed for H9|H|\geq 9 by Zein recently, and so does if HH is a path. Note that r(H)=H\overrightarrow{r}(H)=|H| implies any tournament contains HH as a spanning subdigraph, it is interesting to ask when r(H)=H\overrightarrow{r}(H)=|H| for HH being a sparse oriented graph. S\'os (1986) conjectured this is true if HH is a directed path plus an additional edge containing the origin of the path as one end, which was confirmed by Petrovi\'{c} (JGT, 1988). In this paper, we show that r(H)=H\overrightarrow{r}(H)=|H| for HH being an oriented graph obtained by identifying a vertex of an antidirected cycle with one end of a directed path. Some other oriented Ramsey numbers for oriented graphs with one cycle are also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2412.17500,
  title  = {Oriented Ramsey numbers of some sparse graphs},
  author = {Junying Lu and Yaojun Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.17500},
  year   = {2025}
}

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