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Star-critical Ramsey numbers and regular Ramsey numbers for stars

Combinatorics 2023-08-15 v1

Abstract

Let GG be a graph, HH be a subgraph of GG, and let GHG- H be the graph obtained from GG by removing a copy of HH. Let K1,nK_{1, n} be the star on n+1n+ 1 vertices. Let t2t\geq 2 be an integer and H1,,HtH_{1}, \dots, H_{t} and HH be graphs, and let H(H1,,Ht)H\rightarrow (H_{1}, \dots, H_{t}) denote that every tt coloring of E(H)E(H) yields a monochromatic copy of HiH_{i} in color ii for some i[t]i\in [t]. Ramsey number r(H1,,Ht)r(H_{1}, \dots, H_{t}) is the minimum integer NN such that KN(H1,,Ht)K_{N}\rightarrow (H_{1}, \dots, H_{t}). Star-critical Ramsey number r(H1,,Ht)r_{*}(H_{1}, \dots, H_{t}) is the minimum integer kk such that KNK1,N1k(H1,,Ht)K_{N}- K_{1, N- 1- k}\rightarrow (H_{1}, \dots, H_{t}) where N=r(H1,,Ht)N= r(H_{1}, \dots, H_{t}). Let rr(H1,,Ht)rr(H_{1}, \dots, H_{t}) be the regular Ramsey number for H1,,HtH_{1}, \dots, H_{t}, which is the minimum integer rr such that if GG is an rr-regular graph on r(H1,,Ht)r(H_{1}, \dots, H_{t}) vertices, then G(H1,,Ht)G\rightarrow (H_{1}, \dots, H_{t}). Let m1,,mtm_{1}, \dots, m_{t} be integers larger than one, exactly kk of which are even. In this paper, we prove that if k2k\geq 2 is even, then r(K1,m1,,K1,mt)=i=1tmit+1k2r_{*}(K_{1, m_{1}}, \dots, K_{1, m_{t}})= \sum_{i= 1}^{t} m_{i}- t+ 1- \frac{k}{2} which disproves a conjecture of Budden and DeJonge in 2022. Furthermore, we prove that if k2k\geq 2 is even, then rr(K1,m1,,K1,mt)=i=1tmitrr(K_{1, m_{1}}, \dots, K_{1, m_{t}})= \sum_{i= 1}^{t} m_{i}- t. Otherwise, rr(K1,m1,,K1,mt)=i=1tmit+1rr(K_{1, m_{1}}, \dots, K_{1, m_{t}})= \sum_{i= 1}^{t} m_{i}- t+ 1.

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@article{arxiv.2308.07194,
  title  = {Star-critical Ramsey numbers and regular Ramsey numbers for stars},
  author = {Zhidan Luo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.07194},
  year   = {2023}
}