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Ramsey theory is a central and active branch of combinatorics. Although Ramsey numbers for graphs have been extensively investigated since Ramsey's work in the 1930s, there is still an exponential gap between the best known lower and upper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-03 António Girão , Gal Kronenberg , Alex Scott

Often regarded as the study of how order emerges from randomness, Ramsey theory has played an important role in mathematics and computer science, giving rise to applications in numerous domains such as logic, parallel processing, and number…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Zohair Raza Hassan

We prove some results on the border of Ramsey theory (finite partition calculus) and model theory. Also a beginning of classification theory of finite models in undertaken.

Logic · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Doug Ensley , Rami Grossberg

Ramsey's theorem states that for any coloring of the n-element subsets of N with finitely many colors, there is an infinite set H such that all n-element subsets of H have the same color. The strength of consequences of Ramsey's theorem has…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Ludovic Patey

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

We state the Ramsey property of classes of ordered structures with closures and given local properties. This generalises many old and new results: the Ne\v{s}et\v{r}il-R\"{o}dl Theorem, the author's Ramsey lift of bowtie-free graphs as well…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-07 Jan Hubička , Jaroslav Nešetřil

For positive integers $k < n$ such that $k$ divides $n$, let $(n)^k_{\hom}$ be the set of homogeneous $k$-partitions of $\{1, \dots, n\}$, that is, the set of partitions of $\{1, \dots, n\}$ into $k$ classes of the same cardinality. In the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Jose G. Mijares

A system of linear equations with integer coefficients is partition regular over a subset S of the reals if, whenever S\{0} is finitely coloured, there is a solution to the system contained in one colour class. It has been known for some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Ben Barber , Neil Hindman , Imre Leader , Dona Strauss

We say that a poset $Q$ contains a copy (resp.~an induced copy) of a poset $P$ if there is an injection $f : P \to Q$ such that for any $x,y \in P$, $f(x)\leq f(y)$ in $Q$ if (resp.~if and only if) $x\leq y$ in $P$. Let $\mathcal{Q}=\{Q_{n}…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Gyula O. H. Katona , Yaping Mao , Kenta Ozeki , Zhao Wang

One of the toughest problems in Ramsey theory is to determine the existence of monochromatic arithmetic progressions in groups whose elements have been colored. We study the harder problem to not only determine the existence of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Erik Sjöland

As a result of 33 intercontinental Zoom calls, we characterise big Ramsey degrees of the generic partial order. This is an infinitary extension of the well known fact that finite partial orders endowed with linear extensions form a Ramsey…

Ultrafilters are a tool, originating in mathematical logic and general topology, that has steadily found more and more uses in multiple areas of mathematics, such as combinatorics, dynamics, and algebra, among others. The purpose of this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-01 David J. Fernández-Bretón

We prove additive and multiplicative partition theorems, obtaining combinatorial results for p-quasicyclic groups, where p is a prime number. We also get density results for p-quasicyclic groups via left F{\o}lner sequences of non-empty…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-19 Andreas Koutsogiannis

Let $G_1$ and $G_2$ be two given graphs. The Ramsey number $R(G_1,G_2)$ is the least integer $r$ such that for every graph $G$ on $r$ vertices, either $G$ contains a $G_1$ or $\overline{G}$ contains a $G_2$. Parsons gave a recursive formula…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-20 Binlong Li , Bo Ning

One way of studying a relational structure is to investigate functions which are related to that structure and which leave certain aspects of the structure invariant. Examples are the automorphism group, the self-embedding monoid, the…

Logic · Mathematics 2011-05-31 Manuel Bodirsky , Michael Pinsker

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

A finite set $X$ in a Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$ is called Ramsey if for every $k$ there exists an integer $n$ such that whenever $\mathbb{R}^n$ is coloured with $k$ colours, there is a monochromatic copy of $X$. Graham conjectured that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Natalie Behague

Extremal problems on set systems with restricted intersections have been an important part of combinatorics in the last 70 year. In this paper, we study the following Ramsey version of these problems. Given a set $L\subseteq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Barnabás Janzer , Zhihan Jin , Benny Sudakov , Kewen Wu

In this article we study the Ramsey numbers $R(r,s)$ through Hilbert's Nullstellensatz and Alon's Combinatorial Nullstellensatz. We give polynomial encodings whose solutions correspond to Ramsey graphs of order $n$, those that do not…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Jesús A. De Loera , William J. Wesley

Building on recent work of Mattheus and Verstra\"ete, we establish a general connection between Ramsey numbers of the form $r(F,t)$ for $F$ a fixed graph and a variant of the Zarankiewicz problem asking for the maximum number of 1s in an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-25 David Conlon , Sam Mattheus , Dhruv Mubayi , Jacques Verstraëte