Prime Certificates for Exact Vertex-Coprime Ramsey Numbers
Abstract
Let be the coprime graph on . We prove that the mixed vertex-coloring coprime Ramsey number satisfies where is the -th prime. The proof is elementary: the prime clique 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 for this vertex-coloring parameter; the edge-coloring parameter on the same host graph is denoted . 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: . 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 for all , via a deterministic prime-bin split requiring only the weak inequality ; for fixed , a Hall argument plus a standard Selberg--Delange estimate gives eventual multicolor balanced certificates.
Cite
@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}
}