The edge Folkman number $F_e(3, 3; 4)$ is greater than 19
Abstract
The set of the graphs which do not contain the complete graph on vertices and have the property that in every coloring of their edges in two colors there exist a monochromatic triangle is denoted by . The edge Folkman numbers are considered. Folkman proved in 1970 that exists if and only if . From the Ramsey number it becomes clear that if . It is also known that and . The upper bounds on the number which follow from the construction of Folkman and from the constructions of some other authors are not good. In 1975 Erdo\"s posed the problem to prove the inequality . This Erdo\"s problem was solved by Spencer in 1978. The last upper bound on was obtained in 2012 by Lange, Radziszowski and Xu, who proved that . The best lower bound on this number is 19 and was obtained 10 years ago by Radziszowski and Xu. In this paper, we improve this result by proving . At the end of the paper, we improve the known bounds on the vertex Folkman number by proving .
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@article{arxiv.1609.03468,
title = {The edge Folkman number $F_e(3, 3; 4)$ is greater than 19},
author = {Aleksandar Bikov and Nedyalko Nenov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.03468},
year = {2019}
}