Ramsey problems for graphs in Euclidean spaces and Cartesian powers
Abstract
Given a graph , let be the smallest positive integer such that there exists an -coloring of with no monochromatic unit-copy of , that is a set of vertices of the same color such that any two vertices corresponding to an edge of are at distance one. This Ramsey-type function extends the famous Hadwiger--Nelson problem on the chromatic number of the space from a complete graph on two vertices to an arbitrary graph . It also extends the classical Euclidean Ramsey problem for congruent monochromatic subsets to the family of those defined by a specific subset of unit distances. Among others, we show that for any even cycle of length or at least as well as for any forest and that for any sufficiently long odd cycle. Our main tools and results, which are of independent interest, establish that Cartesian powers enjoy Ramsey-type properties for graphs with favorable Tur\'an-type characteristics, such as zero hypercube Tur\'an density. In addition, we prove induced variants of these results, find bounds on for growing dimensions , and prove a canonical-type result. We conclude with many open problems. One of these is to determine , for a cycle on four vertices.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2512.15516,
title = {Ramsey problems for graphs in Euclidean spaces and Cartesian powers},
author = {Maria Axenovich and Dingyuan Liu and Arsenii Sagdeev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.15516},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
28 pages (including appendix), minor \LaTeX\ compilation errors fixed