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Planar Ramsey graphs

Combinatorics 2018-12-04 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

We say that a graph HH is planar unavoidable if there is a planar graph GG such that any red/blue coloring of the edges of GG contains a monochromatic copy of HH, otherwise we say that HH is planar avoidable. I.e., HH is planar unavoidable if there is a Ramsey graph for HH 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 44 vertices and any path are planar unavoidable. In addition, we prove that all trees of radius at most 22 are planar unavoidable and there are trees of radius 33 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}
}
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