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The threshold for the asymmetric vertex-Ramsey property in randomly perturbed graphs

Combinatorics 2026-06-29 v1

Abstract

For r2r \geq 2 and graphs H1,,Hr,GH_1, \ldots, H_r, G, we say that GG is (H1,,Hr)(H_1, \ldots, H_r) vertex-Ramsey, or (H1,,Hr)v(H_1, \ldots, H_r)_v-Ramsey, if whenever we colour the vertices of GG with colours from the set [r]={1,2,,r}[r]=\{1,2, \ldots, r\} there exists j[r]j \in [r] such that some copy of HjH_j in GG is monochromatic in colour jj. Given any fixed collection of graphs H1,,HrH_1, \ldots, H_r, Luczak, Ruci\'{n}ski and Voigt and Kreuter determined in the 1990s the threshold edge probability pp at which the binomial random graph G(n,p)G(n,p) becomes (H1,,Hr)v(H_1, \ldots, H_r)_v-Ramsey. More recently, Das, Morris and Treglown investigated the vertex-Ramsey property in the randomly perturbed setting. When r=2r=2 they determined the number of random edges one must add to a dense graph to ensure that with probability 1o(1)1-o(1) the resulting graph is (H1,H2)v(H_1, H_2)_v-Ramsey whenever one of H1H_1 or H2H_2 is a clique. They posed the problem of extending their results to all pairs of graphs (H1,H2)(H_1, H_2). In this paper we resolve a more general form of their problem and determine for any r2r\geq 2 and rr-tuple of graphs (H1,,Hr)(H_1, \ldots, H_r) the number of random edges one must add to a dense graph to ensure that with probability 1o(1)1-o(1) the resulting graph is (H1,,Hr)v(H_1, \ldots, H_r)_v-Ramsey.

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@article{arxiv.2606.30548,
  title  = {The threshold for the asymmetric vertex-Ramsey property in randomly perturbed graphs},
  author = {Asier Calbet Rípodas and Victor Falgas-Ravry and Joseph Hyde},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.30548},
  year   = {2026}
}