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Ramsey-nice families of graphs

Combinatorics 2018-06-26 v2

Abstract

For a finite family F\mathcal{F} of fixed graphs let Rk(F)R_k(\mathcal{F}) be the smallest integer nn for which every kk-coloring of the edges of the complete graph KnK_n yields a monochromatic copy of some FFF\in\mathcal{F}. We say that F\mathcal{F} is kk-nice if for every graph GG with χ(G)=Rk(F)\chi(G)=R_k(\mathcal{F}) and for every kk-coloring of E(G)E(G) there exists a monochromatic copy of some FFF\in\mathcal{F}. It is easy to see that if F\mathcal{F} contains no forest, then it is not kk-nice for any kk. It seems plausible to conjecture that a (weak) converse holds, namely, for any finite family of graphs F\mathcal{F} that contains at least one forest, and for all kk0(F)k\geq k_0(\mathcal{F}) (or at least for infinitely many values of kk), F\mathcal{F} is kk-nice. We prove several (modest) results in support of this conjecture, showing, in particular, that it holds for each of the three families consisting of two connected graphs with 3 edges each and observing that it holds for any family F\mathcal{F} containing a forest with at most 2 edges. We also study some related problems and disprove a conjecture by Aharoni, Charbit and Howard regarding the size of matchings in regular 3-partite 3-uniform hypergraphs.

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@article{arxiv.1708.07369,
  title  = {Ramsey-nice families of graphs},
  author = {Ron Aharoni and Noga Alon and Michal Amir and Penny Haxell and Dan Hefetz and Zilin Jiang and Gal Kronenberg and Alon Naor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.07369},
  year   = {2018}
}

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20 pages, 2 figures