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Prime Certificates for Exact Vertex-Coprime Ramsey Numbers

Combinatorics 2026-05-29 v2 Discrete Mathematics Number Theory

Abstract

Let GnG_n be the coprime graph on {1,,n}\{1,\ldots,n\}. We prove that the mixed vertex-coloring coprime Ramsey number satisfies \Rcop(k1,,kc)=pi=1c(ki1), \Rcop(k_1,\ldots,k_c)=p_{\sum_{i=1}^c(k_i-1)}, where pmp_m is the mm-th prime. The proof is elementary: the prime clique {1}{pn:p prime}\{1\}\cup\{p\le n:p\text{ prime}\} gives the upper bound by pigeonhole, while a prime-bin partition gives the matching lower bound by coloring each composite with a bin containing one of its prime divisors. We reserve \Rcop\Rcop for this vertex-coloring parameter; the edge-coloring parameter on the same host graph is denoted \Redge\Redge. The same certificate viewpoint yields several extensions, including a support-disjointness generalization, a polynomial-time certificate-extraction primitive, and an exact reduction of the edge-coloring variant to classical Ramsey numbers: \Redge(k1,,kc)=p\Rcl(k1,,kc)1\Redge(k_1,\ldots,k_c)=p_{\Rcl(k_1,\ldots,k_c)-1}. These two formulas are rank transfers from the same clique-label certificate. We also prove that the balanced two-color diagonal threshold equals the unrestricted threshold p2k2p_{2k-2} for all k2k\ge2, via a deterministic prime-bin split requiring only the weak inequality 2pm<p2m<3pm2p_m<p_{2m}<3p_m; for fixed cc, a Hall argument plus a standard Selberg--Delange estimate gives eventual multicolor balanced certificates.

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@article{arxiv.2605.26815,
  title  = {Prime Certificates for Exact Vertex-Coprime Ramsey Numbers},
  author = {Zhicheng Du and Wenji Xi and Zhuo Deng and Lan Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.26815},
  year   = {2026}
}