Strong Ramsey game on two boards
Abstract
The strong Ramsey game is a two-player game played on a graph , referred to as the board, with a target graph . In this game, two players, and , alternately claim unclaimed edges of , starting with . The goal is to claim a subgraph isomorphic to , with the first player achieving this declared the winner. A fundamental open question, persisting for over three decades, asks whether there exists a graph such that in the game , does not have a winning strategy in a bounded number of moves as . In this paper, we shift the focus to the variant , introduced by David, Hartarsky, and Tiba, where the board consists of two disjoint copies of . We prove that there exist infinitely many graphs such that cannot win in within a bounded number of moves through a concise proof. This perhaps provides evidence for the existence of examples to the above longstanding open problem.
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@article{arxiv.2501.06830,
title = {Strong Ramsey game on two boards},
author = {Jiangdong Ai and Jun Gao and Zixiang Xu and Xin Yan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.06830},
year = {2025}
}
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12 pages