Planar Ramsey graphs
Combinatorics
2018-12-04 v1 Discrete Mathematics
Abstract
We say that a graph is planar unavoidable if there is a planar graph such that any red/blue coloring of the edges of contains a monochromatic copy of , otherwise we say that is planar avoidable. I.e., is planar unavoidable if there is a Ramsey graph for that is planar. It follows from the Four-Color Theorem and a result of Gon\c{c}alves that if a graph is planar unavoidable then it is bipartite and outerplanar. We prove that the cycle on vertices and any path are planar unavoidable. In addition, we prove that all trees of radius at most are planar unavoidable and there are trees of radius that are planar avoidable. We also address the planar unavoidable notion in more than two colors.
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@article{arxiv.1812.00832,
title = {Planar Ramsey graphs},
author = {Maria Axenovich and Carsten Thomassen and Ursula Schade and Torsten Ueckerdt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.00832},
year = {2018}
}