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Ramsey goodness of fans

Combinatorics 2023-10-23 v1

Abstract

Given two graphs G1G_1 and G2G_2, the Ramsey number r(G1,G2)r(G_1,G_2) refers to the smallest positive integer NN such that any graph GG with NN vertices contains G1G_1 as a subgraph, or the complement of GG contains G2G_2 as a subgraph. A connected graph HH is said to be pp-good if r(Kp,H)=(p1)(H1)+1r(K_p,H)=(p-1)(|H|-1)+1. A generalized fan, denoted as K1+nHK_1+nH, is formed by the disjoint union of nn copies of HH along with an additional vertex that is connected to each vertex of nHnH. Recently Chung and Lin proved that K1+nHK_1+nH is pp-good for ncp/Hn\ge cp\ell/|H|, where c52.456c\approx 52.456 and =r(Kp,H)\ell=r(K_{p},H). They also posed the question of improving the lower bound of nn further so that K1+nHK_1+nH remains pp-good. In this paper, we present three different methods to improve the range of nn. First, we apply the Andr\'asfai-Erd\H{o}s-S\'os theorem to reduce cc from 52.45652.456 to 33. Second, we utilize the approach established by Chen and Zhang to achieve a further reduction of cc to 22. Lastly, we employ a new method to bring cc down to 11. In addition, when K1+nHK_1+nH forms a fan graph FnF_n, we can further obtain a slightly more refined bound of nn.

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@article{arxiv.2310.13204,
  title  = {Ramsey goodness of fans},
  author = {Yanbo Zhang and Yaojun Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.13204},
  year   = {2023}
}