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We study a pair of weakenings of the classical partition relation $\nu \rightarrow (\mu)^2_\lambda$ recently introduced by Bergfalk-Hru\v{s}\'{a}k-Shelah and Bergfalk, respectively. Given an edge-coloring of the complete graph on $\nu$-many…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Chris Lambie-Hanson

Given a graph $H$, let $g(n,H)$ denote the smallest $k$ for which the following holds. We can assign a $k$-colouring $f_v$ of the edge set of $K_n$ to each vertex $v$ in $K_n$ with the property that for any copy $T$ of $H$ in $K_n$, there…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Barnabás Janzer , Oliver Janzer

A path in an edge-colored graph is said to be a rainbow path if no two edges on the path have the same color. An edge-colored graph is (strongly) rainbow connected if there exists a rainbow (geodesic) path between every pair of vertices.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-09-28 Shasha Li , Xueliang Li

In the paper we prove, in particular, that for any measurable coloring of the euclidian plane into two colours there is a monochromatic triangle with some restrictions on the sides. Also we consider similar problems in finite fields…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-24 Ilya D. Shkredov

Let $G$ be a nontrivial connected, edge-colored graph. An edge-cut $S$ of $G$ is called a rainbow cut if no two edges in $S$ are colored with a same color. An edge-coloring of $G$ is a rainbow disconnection coloring if for every two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Zhong Huang , Xueliang Li

The first-order part of the Ramsey's Theorem for pairs with an arbitrary number of colors is known to be precisely BSigma03. We compare this to the known division of Ramsey's Theorem for pairs into the weaker principles, EM (the…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-07-13 Henry Towsner , Keita Yokoyama

For fixed finite graphs $G$, $H$, a common problem in Ramsey theory is to study graphs $F$ such that $F \to (G,H)$, i.e. every red-blue coloring of the edges of $F$ produces either a red $G$ or a blue $H$. We generalize this study to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-15 Jordan Mitchell Barrett , Valentino Vito

For given graphs G1 and G2 the Ramsey number R(G1,G2), is the smallest positive integer n such that each blue-red edge coloring of the complete graph Kn contains a blue copy of G1 or a red copy of G2. In 1983, Erdos conjectured that there…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-11-28 Leila Maherani , Gholamreza Omidi

We prove that the statement "for every infinite cardinal nu, every graph with list chromatic nu has coloring number at most beth_omega (nu)" proved by Kojman [6] using the RGCH theorem [11] implies the RGCG theorem via a short forcing…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-01-28 Saharon Shelah

For a graph $G$, the $k$-colour Ramsey number $R_k(G)$ is the least integer $N$ such that every $k$-colouring of the edges of the complete graph $K_N$ contains a monochromatic copy of $G$. Let $C_n$ denote the cycle on $n$ vertices. We show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-22 Matthew Jenssen , Jozef Skokan

For graphs $G$ and $H$, let $G {\displaystyle\smash{\begin{subarray}{c} \hbox{$\tiny\rm rb$} \\ \longrightarrow \\ \hbox{$\tiny\rm p$} \end{subarray}}}H$ denote the property that for every proper edge-colouring of $G$ there is a rainbow $H$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-20 Yoshiharu Kohayakawa , Guilherme Oliveira Mota , Olaf Parczyk , Jakob Schnitzer

The chromatic polynomial and its generalization, the chromatic symmetric function, are two important graph invariants. Celebrated theorems of Birkhoff, Whitney, and Stanley show how both objects can be expressed in three different ways: as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Bruce E. Sagan , Vincent Vatter

In this paper we prove a new result about partitioning coloured complete graphs and use it to determine certain Ramsey numbers exactly. The partitioning theorem we prove is that for k at least 1, in every edge colouring of a complete graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-17 Alexey Pokrovskiy

The coloured Tverberg theorem was conjectured by B\'ar\'any, Lov\'{a}sz and F\"uredi and asks whether for any d+1 sets (considered as colour classes) of k points each in R^d there is a partition of them into k colourful sets whose convex…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-04-24 Pablo Soberón

We prove that for any $\varepsilon>0$, for any large enough $t$, there is a graph $G$ that admits no $K_t$-minor but admits a $(\frac32-\varepsilon)t$-colouring that is "frozen" with respect to Kempe changes, i.e. any two colour classes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Marthe Bonamy , Marc Heinrich , Clément Legrand-Duchesne , Jonathan Narboni

We study the first-order consequences of Ramsey's Theorem for $k$-colourings of $n$-tuples, for fixed $n, k \ge 2$, over the relatively weak second-order arithmetic theory $\mathrm{RCA}^*_0$. Using the Chong-Mourad coding lemma, we show…

We construct a connected graph H such that (1) \chi(H) = \omega; (2) K_\omega, the complete graph on \omega points, is not a minor of H. Therefore Hadwiger's conjecture does not hold for graphs with infinite coloring number.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-14 Dominic van der Zypen

Ramsey's theorem states that for all finite colorings of an infinite set, there exists an infinite homogeneous subset. What if we seek a homogeneous subset that is also order-equivalent to the original set? Let $S$ be a linearly ordered set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Joanna Boyland , William Gasarch , Nathan Hurtig , Robert Rust

For many random Constraint Satisfaction Problems, by now, we have asymptotically tight estimates of the largest constraint density for which they have solutions. At the same time, all known polynomial-time algorithms for many of these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-29 Dimitris Achlioptas , Amin Coja-Oghlan

When many colors appear in edge-colored graphs, it is only natural to expect rainbow subgraphs to appear. This anti-Ramsey problem has been studied thoroughly and yet there remain many gaps in the literature. Expanding upon classical and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-30 Chuandong Xu , Colton Magnant , Shenggui Zhang