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We further develop the theory of layered semigroups, as introduced by Farah, Hindman and McLeod, providing a general framework to prove Ramsey statements about such a semigroup $S$. By nonstandard and topological arguments, we show Ramsey…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-26 Jordan Mitchell Barrett

This paper addresses two problems lying at the intersection of geometric analysis and theoretical computer science: The non-linear isomorphic Dvoretzky theorem and the design of good approximate distance oracles for large distortion. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-15 Manor Mendel , Assaf Naor

The purpose of this survey is to provide a gentle introduction to several recent breakthroughs in graph Ramsey theory. In particular, we will outline the proofs (due to various groups of authors) of exponential improvements to the diagonal,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Robert Morris

We consider $m$-colorings of the edges of a complete graph, where each color class is defined semi-algebraically with bounded complexity. The case $m = 2$ was first studied by Alon et al., who applied this framework to obtain surprisingly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-07 Jacob Fox , Janos Pach , Andrew Suk

We say that a subset $M$ of $\mathbb R^n$ is exponentially Ramsey if there are $\epsilon>0$ and $n_0$ such that $\chi(\mathbb R^n,M)\ge(1+\epsilon)^n$ for any $n>n_0$, where $\chi(\mathbb R^n,M)$ stands for the minimum number of colors in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Andrey Kupavskii , Arsenii Sagdeev , Dmitrii Zakharov

We study density and partition properties of polynomial equations in prime variables. We consider equations of the form $a_1h(x_1) + \cdots + a_sh(x_s)=b$, where the $a_i$ and $b$ are fixed coefficients, and $h$ is an arbitrary integer…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Jonathan Chapman , Sam Chow

The Ramsey number $r_k(s,n)$ is the minimum $N$ such that every red-blue coloring of the $k$-subsets of $\{1, \ldots, N\}$ contains a red set of size $s$ or a blue set of size $n$, where a set is red (blue) if all of its $k$-subsets are red…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-01 Dhruv Mubayi , Andrew Suk

The study of symmetric structures is a new trend in Ramsey theory. Recently in [7], Di Nasso initiated a systematic study of symmetrization of classical Ramsey theoretical results, and proved a symmetric version of several Ramsey theoretic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Arkabrata Ghosh , Sayan Goswami , Sourav Kanti Patra

We study the uniform computational content of Ramsey's theorem in the Weihrauch lattice. Our central results provide information on how Ramsey's theorem behaves under product, parallelization and jumps. From these results we can derive a…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-11-12 Vasco Brattka , Tahina Rakotoniaina

We resolve a conjecture of Cooper-Fenner-Purewal that a certain sequence of combinatorial matrices which can be used to bound small product-Ramsey numbers is positive semidefinite. Because the connection to Ramsey Theory involves solving…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-01 Joshua Cooper , Maxwell Forst

In this thesis, we investigate the computational content and the logical strength of Ramsey's theorem and its consequences. For this, we use the frameworks of reverse mathematics and of computable reducibility. We proceed to a systematic…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-02-19 Ludovic Patey

We generalize the notion of relational precompact expansions of Fra\"iss\'e classes via functorial means, inspired by the technique outlined by Laflamme, Nguyen Van Th\'e and Sauer in their paper Partition properties of the dense local…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-28 Keegan Dasilva Barbosa

Several recent papers have considered the Ramsey-theoretic problem of how large a subset of integers can be without containing any 3-term geometric progressions. This problem has also recently been generalized to number fields, determining…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-22 Megumi Asada , Eva Fourakis , Sarah Manski , Nathan McNew , Steven J. Miller , Gwyneth Moreland

A nearly logarithmic lower bound on the randomized competitive ratio for the metrical task systems problem is presented. This implies a similar lower bound for the extensively studied k-server problem. The proof is based on Ramsey-type…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Yair Bartal , Bela Bollobas , Manor Mendel

Suppose some random resource (energy, mass or space) $\chi \geq 0$ is to be shared at random between (possibly infinitely many) species (atoms or fragments). Assume ${\Bbb E}\chi =\theta <\infty $ and suppose the amount of the individual…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Thierry Huillet

We construct a Ramsey class whose objects are Steiner systems. In contrast to the situation with general $r$-uniform hypergraphs, it turns out that simply putting linear orders on their sets of vertices is not enough for this purpose: one…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-25 Vindya Bhat , Jaroslav Nešetřil , Christian Reiher , Vojtěch Rödl

Close connections between various notions of entropy and the apparatus of category theory have been observed already in the 1980s and more vigorously developed in the past ten years. The starting point of the paper is the recent categorical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-25 Dragan Mašulović

Showing that the Ramsey property holds for a class of finite structures can be an extremely challenging task and a slew of sophisticated methods have been proposed in literature. In this paper we propose a new strategy to show that a class…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-30 Dragan Masulovic

For graphs $F$ and $G$, let $F\to G$ signify that any red/blue edge coloring of $F$ contains a monochromatic $G$. Denote by ${\cal G}(N,p)$ the random graph space of order $N$ and edge probability $p$. Using the regularity method, one can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-03 Ye Wang , Yusheng Li

Suppose we partition the integers into finitely many cells. Can we always find a solution of the equation $x^2+y^2=z^2$ with $x,y,z$ on the same cell? What about more general homogeneous quadratic equations in three variables? These are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Nikos Frantzikinakis