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Ramsey numbers of Boolean lattices

Combinatorics 2021-04-06 v1

Abstract

The poset Ramsey number R(Qm,Qn)R(Q_m,Q_n) is the smallest integer NN such that any blue-red coloring of the elements of the Boolean lattice QNQ_N has a blue induced copy of QmQ_m or a red induced copy of QnQ_n. The weak poset Ramsey number Rw(Qm,Qn)R_w(Q_m,Q_n) is defined analogously, with weak copies instead of induced copies. It is easy to see that R(Qm,Qn)Rw(Qm,Qn)R(Q_m,Q_n) \ge R_w(Q_m,Q_n). Axenovich and Walzer showed that n+2R(Q2,Qn)2n+2n+2 \le R(Q_2,Q_n) \le 2n+2. Recently, Lu and Thompson improved the upper bound to 53n+2\frac{5}{3}n+2. In this paper, we solve this problem asymptotically by showing that R(Q2,Qn)=n+O(n/logn)R(Q_2,Q_n)=n+O(n/\log n). In the diagonal case, Cox and Stolee proved Rw(Qn,Qn)2n+1R_w(Q_n,Q_n) \ge 2n+1 using a probabilistic construction. In the induced case, Bohman and Peng showed R(Qn,Qn)2n+1R(Q_n,Q_n) \ge 2n+1 using an explicit construction. Improving these results, we show that Rw(Qm,Qn)n+m+1R_w(Q_m,Q_n) \ge n+m+1 for all m2m \ge 2 and large nn by giving an explicit construction; in particular, we prove that Rw(Q2,Qn)=n+3R_w(Q_2,Q_n)=n+3.

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@article{arxiv.2104.02002,
  title  = {Ramsey numbers of Boolean lattices},
  author = {Dániel Grósz and Abhishek Methuku and Casey Tompkins},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.02002},
  year   = {2021}
}
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