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Sharp Ramsey thresholds for large books

Combinatorics 2024-09-10 v2

Abstract

For graphs GG and HH, let GHG\to H signify that any red/blue edge coloring of GG contains a monochromatic HH. Let G(N,p)G(N,p) be the random graph of order NN and edge probability pp. The Ramsey thresholds for fixed graphs have received most attention. In this paper, we consider the Ramsey thresholds in another angle. In particular, we will consider the sharp Ramsey threshold for the large book graph Bn(k)B_n^{(k)}, which consists of nn copies of Kk+1K_{k+1} all sharing a common KkK_k. In particular, for every fixed integer k2k\ge 2 and for any real c>1c>1, let N=c2knN=c2^k n. Then for any real γ>0\gamma>0, \lim_{n\to \infty} \Pr(G(N,p)\to B_n^{(k)})= \left\{ \begin{array}{cl} 0 & \mbox{if $p\le\frac{1}{c^{1/k}}(1-\gamma)$,} \\ 1 & \mbox{if $p\ge\frac{1}{c^{1/k}}(1+\gamma)$}. \end{array} \right. This implies that r(Bn(k),Bn(k))=2kn+o(n)r(B_n^{(k)},B_n^{(k)})=2^kn+o(n), and hence especially extends the work of Conlon (2019) and the follow-up work of Conlon, Fox and Wigderson (2022) on book Ramsey numbers.

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@article{arxiv.2302.05835,
  title  = {Sharp Ramsey thresholds for large books},
  author = {Qizhong Lin and Ye Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.05835},
  year   = {2024}
}

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15 pages

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