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A Gallai coloring of a complete graph is an edge-coloring such that no triangle has all its edges colored differently. A Gallai $k$-coloring is a Gallai coloring that uses $k$ colors. Given an integer $k\ge1$ and a graph $H$, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-31 Christian Bosse , Zi-Xia Song , Jingmei Zhang

We define and develop preliminary theoretical results for the $\Gamma$-switch Ramsey number, a variation on the classical $m$-colour Ramsey number for which we allow permuting the colours incident with a vertex using elements of a group…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Christopher Duffy , Benjamin Fok , Gary MacGillivray

A famous result in arithmetic Ramsey theory says that for many linear homogeneous equations $E$ there is a threshold value $R_k(E)$ (the Rado number of $E$) such that for any $k$-coloring of the integers in the interval $[1,n]$, with $n \ge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Jesús A. De Loera , Denae Ventura , Liuyue Wang , William J. Wesley

The purpose is to study the strength of Ramsey's Theorem for pairs restricted to recursive assignments of $k$-many colors, with respect to Intuitionistic Heyting Arithmetic. We prove that for every natural number $k \geq 2$, Ramsey's…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-01-11 Stefano Berardi , Silvia Steila

For $n\geq s> r\geq 1$ and $k\geq 2$, write $n \rightarrow (s)_{k}^r$ if every hyperedge colouring with $k$ colours of the complete $r$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices has a monochromatic subset of size $s$. Improving upon previous…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Bruno Jartoux , Chaya Keller , Shakhar Smorodinsky , Yelena Yuditsky

An edge-colored graph is called \textit{rainbow graph} if all the colors on its edges are distinct. Given a positive integer $n$ and a graph $G$, the \textit{anti-Ramsey number} $ar(n,G)$ is defined to be the minimum number of colors $r$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Hongliang Lu , Xinyue Luo , Xinxin Ma

In a recent breakthrough Campos, Griffiths, Morris and Sahasrabudhe obtained the first exponential improvement of the upper bound on the diagonal Ramsey numbers since 1935. We shorten their proof, replacing the underlying book algorithm…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Parth Gupta , Ndiame Ndiaye , Sergey Norin , Louis Wei

We estimate the $3$-colour bipartite Ramsey number for balanced bipartite graphs $H$ with small bandwidth and bounded maximum degree. More precisely, we show that the minimum value of $N$ such that in any $3$-edge colouring of $K_{N,N}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-10 Guilherme Oliveira Mota

We study the multicolor Ramsey numbers for paths and even cycles, $R_k(P_n)$ and $R_k(C_n)$, which are the smallest integers $N$ such that every coloring of the complete graph $K_N$ has a monochromatic copy of $P_n$ or $C_n$ respectively.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-15 Charlotte Knierim , Pascal Su

We give asymptotically optimal constructions in generalized Ramsey theory using results about conflict-free hypergraph matchings. For example, we present an edge-coloring of $K_{n,n}$ with $2n/3 + o(n)$ colors such that each $4$-cycle…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-29 Felix Joos , Dhruv Mubayi

We study two related problems concerning the number of homogeneous subsets of given size in graphs that go back to questions of Erd\H{o}s. Most notably, we improve the upper bounds on the Ramsey multiplicity of $K_4$ and $K_5$ and settle…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-16 Olaf Parczyk , Sebastian Pokutta , Christoph Spiegel , Tibor Szabó

A Gallai $k$-coloring is a $k$-edge coloring of a complete graph in which there are no rainbow triangles. For given graphs $G_1, G_2, G_3$ and nonnegative integers $r, s, t$ with that $k=r+s+t$, the $k$-colored Gallai-Ramsey number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-28 Xueli Su , Yan Liu

A $(p, q)$-coloring of $K_n$ is a coloring of the edges of $K_n$ such that every $p$-clique has at least $q$ distinct colors among its edges. The generalized Ramsey number $f(n, p, q)$ is the minimum number of colors such that $K_n$ has a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Patrick Bennett , Ryan Cushman , Andrzej Dudek

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

A construction described by the current author in 2017 uses two linear `prototype' graphs to build a compound graph with Ramsey properties inherited from the prototypes. This paper describes a generalisation of that construction which has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-13 Fred Rowley

We construct an edge-colored digraph analogous to Mathon's construction for undirected graphs. We show that this graph is connected to the $k$-th power Paley digraphs and we use this connection to produce improved lower bounds for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Dermot McCarthy , Chris Monico

The classical hypergraph Ramsey number $r_k(s,n)$ is the minimum $N$ such that for every red-blue coloring of the $k$-tuples of $\{1,\ldots, N\}$, there are $s$ integers such that every $k$-tuple among them is red, or $n$ integers such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-08 Dhruv Mubayi , Andrew Suk

In this paper we introduce a general framework for proving lower bounds for various Ramsey type problems within random settings. The main idea is to view the problem from an algorithmic perspective: we aim at providing an algorithm that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-25 Rajko Nenadov , Yury Person , Nemanja Škorić , Angelika Steger

In [5] Graham and Rothschild consider a geometric Ramsey problem: finding the least n such that if all edges of the complete graph on the points {+1,-1}^n are 2-colored, there exist 4 coplanar points such that the 6 edges between them are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-08-27 Mikhail Lavrov , Mitchell Lee , John Mackey

A Gallai $k$-coloring is a $k$-edge coloring of a complete graph in which there are no rainbow triangles. For two given graphs $H, G$ and two positive integers $k,s$ with that $s\leq k$, the $k$-colored Gallai-Ramsey number $gr_{k}(K_{3}:…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Xueli Su , Yan Liu