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In 1964, Erd\H{o}s, Hajnal and Moon introduced a saturation version of Tur\'an's classical theorem in extremal graph theory. In particular, they determined the minimum number of edges in a $K_r$-free, $n$-vertex graph with the property that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Gábor Damásdi , Balázs Keszegh , David Malec , Casey Tompkins , Zhiyu Wang , Oscar Zamora

We give a probabilistic construction of a $3$-uniform hypergraph on $N$ vertices with independence number $O(\log N / \log \log N)$ in which there are at most two edges among any four vertices. This bound is tight and solves a longstanding…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Jacob Fox , Xiaoyu He

Ramsey, Erdos-Rado, and Conlon-Fox-Sudakov have given proofs of the 3-hypergraph Ramsey Theorem with better and better upper bounds on the 3-hypergraph Ramsey Number. Ramsey and Erdos-Rado also prove the a-hypergraph Ramsey Theorem.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-06-20 William Gasarch , Andy Parrish , Sandow Sinai

The odd-Ramsey number $r_{{\text odd}}(n,H)$ of a graph $H$, as introduced by Alon in his work on graph-codes, is the minimum number of colours needed to edge-colour $K_n$ so that every copy of $H$ intersects some colour class in an odd…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Simona Boyadzhiyska , Shagnik Das , Thomas Lesgourgues , Kalina Petrova

In this series of papers we advance Ramsey theory of colorings over partitions. In this part, we concentrate on anti-Ramsey relations, or, as they are better known, strong colorings, and in particular solve two problems from [CKS21]. It is…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-05-02 Menachem Kojman , Assaf Rinot , Juris Steprans

We extend two well-known results in Ramsey theory from from $K_n$ to arbitrary $n$-chromatic graphs. The first is a note of Erd\H os and Rado stating that in every 2-coloring of the edges of $K_n$ there is a monochromatic tree on $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Arie Bialostocki , Andras Gyarfas

A weakly optimal $K_s$-free $(n,d,\lambda)$-graph is a $d$-regular $K_s$-free graph on $n$ vertices with $d=\Theta(n^{1-\alpha})$ and spectral expansion $\lambda=\Theta(n^{1-(s-1)\alpha})$, for some fixed $\alpha>0$. Such a graph is called…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Xiaoyu He , Yuval Wigderson

The following inequality chain $$ ir(G)\le \gamma(G)\le i(G)\le \alpha(G) \le \Gamma(G) \le I\!R(G)$$ is known as a domination chain, where $ir(G), \gamma(G), i(G), \alpha(G), \Gamma(G)$, and $I\!R(G)$ are the lower irredundance number, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Jin Sun , Xinmin Hou

For graphs $G$, $F$ and $H$, let $G\rightarrow (F,H)$ signify that any edge coloring of $G$ in red and blue contains a red $F$ or a blue $H$. The Ramsey number $R(F,H)=\min\{r|\; K_r\rightarrow (F,H)\}$. In this note, we consider redundant…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-18 Ye Wang , Yusheng Li , Yan Li

In this paper, we construct explicit families of polynomials $P \in \mathbb{F}_q[x_1,\dots,x_n]$ with large root sets which have restricted intersections with affine lines. We use these sets to make substantial progress on a number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Jakob Führer , Vladislav Taranchuk

Suppose that $T$ is an acyclic $r$-uniform hypergraph, with $r\ge 2$. We define the ($t$-color) chromatic Ramsey number $\chi(T,t)$ as the smallest $m$ with the following property: if the edges of any $m$-chromatic $r$-uniform hypergraph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-03 András Gyárfás , Alexander W. N. Riasanovsky , Melissa U. Sherman-Bennett

We prove the Ramsey property for classes of ordered structures with closures and given local properties. This generalises earlier results: the Ne\v{s}et\v{r}il-R\"odl Theorem, the Ramsey property of partial orders and metric spaces as well…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Jan Hubička , Jaroslav Nešetřil

Given positive integers $k$ and $\ell$ we write $G \rightarrow (K_k,K_\ell)$ if every 2-colouring of the edges of $G$ yields a red copy of $K_k$ or a blue copy of $K_\ell$ and we denote by $R(k)$ the minimum $n$ such that $K_n\rightarrow…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Walner Mendonça , Meysam Miralaei , Guilherme O. Mota

Given a graph $H$, the $k$-colored Gallai Ramsey number $gr_{k}(K_{3} : H)$ is defined to be the minimum integer $n$ such that every $k$-coloring of the edges of the complete graph on $n$ vertices contains either a rainbow triangle or a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-14 Colton Magnant , Ingo Schiermeyer

The Hales--Jewett theorem is one of the pillars of Ramsey theory, from which many other results follow. A celebrated theorem of Shelah says that Hales--Jewett numbers are primitive recursive. A key tool used in his proof, now known as the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-23 David Conlon , Jacob Fox , Choongbum Lee , Benny Sudakov

We discuss the rainbow Ramsey theorems at limit cardinals and successors of singular cardinals, addressing some questions in \cite{MR2354904} and \cite{MR2902230}. In particular, we show for inaccessible $\kappa$,…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Jing Zhang

We introduce the notion of a {\it semi-retraction}. Given two structures $\A$ and $\B$, $\A$ is a semi-retraction of $\B$ if there exist quantifier-free type respecting maps $f: \B \raw \A$ and $g: \A \raw \B$ such that $f \circ g$ is an…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Lynn Scow

We show a short proof of Higman's lemma using Friedman's adjacent Ramsey theorem for pairs. This provides an alternative proof of the known upper bound for the reverse mathematical status of Higman's lemma and that of its miniaturised…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Florian Pelupessy

The celebrated theorem of Kechris, Pestov and Todor\v{c}evi\'c connecting structural Ramsey theory with topological dynamics has as a consequence that the Fra\"{\i}ss\'e limit of a Ramsey class of non-trivial finite relational structures…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Peter J. Cameron , Siavash Lashkarighouchani

We study the topological version of the partition calculus in the setting of countable ordinals. Let $\alpha$ and $\beta$ be ordinals and let $k$ be a positive integer. We write $\beta\to_{top}(\alpha,k)^2$ to mean that, for every red-blue…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-07-20 Andrés Eduardo Caicedo , Jacob Hilton