Poset Ramsey numbers: large Boolean lattice versus a fixed poset
Abstract
Given partially ordered sets (posets) and , we say that contains a copy of if for some injective function and for any , if and only of . For any posets and , the poset Ramsey number is the least positive integer such that no matter how the elements of an -dimensional Boolean lattice are colored in blue and red, there is either a copy of with all blue elements or a copy of with all red elements. We focus on a poset Ramsey number for a fixed poset and an -dimensional Boolean lattice , as grows large. We show a sharp jump in behaviour of this number as a function of depending on whether or not contains a copy of either a poset , i.e. a poset on elements such that , , and and incomparable, or a poset , its symmetric counterpart. Specifically, we prove that if contains a copy of or then . Otherwise for a constant . This gives the first non-marginal improvement of a lower bound on poset Ramsey numbers and as a consequence gives .
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@article{arxiv.2110.07648,
title = {Poset Ramsey numbers: large Boolean lattice versus a fixed poset},
author = {Maria Axenovich and Christian Winter},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.07648},
year = {2021}
}
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18 pages, 2 figures