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Ramsey numbers of cubes versus cliques

Combinatorics 2013-12-16 v2

Abstract

The cube graph Q_n is the skeleton of the n-dimensional cube. It is an n-regular graph on 2^n vertices. The Ramsey number r(Q_n, K_s) is the minimum N such that every graph of order N contains the cube graph Q_n or an independent set of order s. Burr and Erdos in 1983 asked whether the simple lower bound r(Q_n, K_s) >= (s-1)(2^n - 1)+1 is tight for s fixed and n sufficiently large. We make progress on this problem, obtaining the first upper bound which is within a constant factor of the lower bound.

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@article{arxiv.1208.1732,
  title  = {Ramsey numbers of cubes versus cliques},
  author = {David Conlon and Jacob Fox and Choongbum Lee and Benny Sudakov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.1732},
  year   = {2013}
}

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26 pages