Sharp thresholds for Ramsey properties
Abstract
In this work, we develop a unified framework for establishing sharp threshold results for various Ramsey properties. To achieve this, we view such properties as non-colourability of auxiliary hypergraphs. Our main technical result gives sufficient conditions on a sequence of such hypergraphs that guarantee that this non-colourability property has a sharp threshold in subhypergraphs induced by random subsets of the vertices. Furthermore, we verify these conditions in several cases of interest. In the classical setting of Ramsey theory for graphs, we show that the property of being Ramsey for a graph in colours has a sharp threshold in , for all and all in a class of graphs that includes all cliques and cycles. In the arithmetic setting, we establish sharpness of thresholds for the properties corresponding to van der Waerden's theorem and Schur's theorem, also in any number of colours.
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@article{arxiv.2207.13982,
title = {Sharp thresholds for Ramsey properties},
author = {Ehud Friedgut and Eden Kuperwasser and Wojciech Samotij and Mathias Schacht},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.13982},
year = {2026}
}
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64 pages