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The multicolour size-Ramsey number of powers of paths

Combinatorics 2018-11-05 v1

Abstract

Given a positive integer ss, a graph GG is ss-Ramsey for a graph HH, denoted G(H)sG\rightarrow (H)_s, if every ss-colouring of the edges of GG contains a monochromatic copy of HH. The ss-colour size-Ramsey number r^s(H){\hat{r}}_s(H) of a graph HH is defined to be r^s(H)=min{E(G) ⁣:G(H)s}{\hat{r}}_s(H)=\min\{|E(G)|\colon G\rightarrow (H)_s\}. We prove that, for all positive integers kk and ss, we have r^s(Pnk)=O(n){\hat{r}}_s(P_n^k)=O(n), where PnkP_n^k is the kkth power of the nn-vertex path PnP_n.

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@article{arxiv.1811.00844,
  title  = {The multicolour size-Ramsey number of powers of paths},
  author = {Jie Han and Matthew Jenssen and Yoshiharu Kohayakawa and Guilherme Oliveira Mota and Barnaby Roberts},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.00844},
  year   = {2018}
}

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