Ramsey-nice families of graphs
Abstract
For a finite family of fixed graphs let be the smallest integer for which every -coloring of the edges of the complete graph yields a monochromatic copy of some . We say that is -nice if for every graph with and for every -coloring of there exists a monochromatic copy of some . It is easy to see that if contains no forest, then it is not -nice for any . It seems plausible to conjecture that a (weak) converse holds, namely, for any finite family of graphs that contains at least one forest, and for all (or at least for infinitely many values of ), is -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 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.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
20 pages, 2 figures