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For positive integers $N$ and $r \geq 2$, an $r$-monotone coloring of $\binom{\{1,\dots,N\}}{r}$ is a 2-coloring by $-1$ and $+1$ that is monotone on the lexicographically ordered sequence of $r$-tuples of every $(r+1)$-tuple…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-16 Martin Balko

In this paper, we first study a new extremal problem recently posed by Conlon and Tyomkyn~(arXiv: 2002.00921). Given a graph $H$ and an integer $k\geqslant 2$, let $f_{k}(n,H)$ be the smallest number of colors $c$ such that there exists a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Zixiang Xu , Tao Zhang , Yifan Jing , Gennian Ge

A natural question, inspired by the famous Ryser-Brualdi-Stein Conjecture, is to determine the largest positive integer $g(r,n)$ such that every collection of $n$ matchings, each of size $n$, in an $r$-partite $r$-uniform hypergraph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Candida Bowtell , Andrea Freschi , Gal Kronenberg , Jun Yan

Given two finite posets $\mathcal P$ and $\mathcal Q$, their Ramsey number, denoted by $R(\mathcal P,\mathcal Q)$, is defined to be the smallest integer $N$ such that any blue/red colouring of the vertices of the hypercube $Q_N$ has either…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Maria-Romina Ivan , Bernardus A. Wessels

For graphs $G$ and $H$, we consider Ramsey numbers $r(G,H)$ with tight lower bounds, namely, $r(G,H) \geq (\chi(G)-1)(|H|-1)+1,$ where $\chi(G)$ denotes the chromatic number of $G$ and $|H|$ denotes the number of vertices in $H$. We say $H$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-31 Fan Chung , Qizhong Lin

In 1961 Erd\H{o}s and Hajnal introduced the quantity $m(n)$ as the minimum number of edges in an $n$-uniform hypergraph with chromatic number at least 3. The best known lower and upper bounds for $ m(n) $ are $ c_1 \sqrt{\frac{n}{\ln n}}…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-02 Danila Cherkashin

Given a graph $H$, let $\chi_H(\mathbb{R}^n)$ be the smallest positive integer $r$ such that there exists an $r$-coloring of $\mathbb{R}^n$ with no monochromatic unit-copy of $H$, that is a set of $|V(H)|$ vertices of the same color such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Maria Axenovich , Dingyuan Liu , Arsenii Sagdeev

For two graphs $G^<$ and $H^<$ with linearly ordered vertex sets, the ordered Ramsey number $r_<(G^<,H^<)$ is the minimum $N$ such that every red-blue coloring of the edges of the ordered complete graph on $N$ vertices contains a red copy…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-12 Martin Balko , Marian Poljak

In this note we study graphs $G_r$ with the property that every colouring of $E(G_r)$ with $r+1$ colours admits a copy of some graph $H$ using at most $r$ colours. For $1\le r\le e(H)$ such graphs occur naturally at intermediate steps in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-20 Alexander Haupt , Damian Reding

For fixed positive integers $r, k$ and $\ell$ with $1 \leq \ell < r$ and an $r$-uniform hypergraph $H$, let $\kappa (H, k,\ell)$ denote the number of $k$-colorings of the set of hyperedges of $H$ for which any two hyperedges in the same…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-03-01 Carlos Hoppen , Yoshiharu Kohayakawa , Hanno Lefmann

Kneser's 1955 conjecture -- proven by Lov\'asz in 1978 -- asserts that in any partition of the $k$-subsets of $\{1, 2, \dots, n\}$ into $n-2k-3$ parts, one part contains two disjoint sets. Schrijver showed that one can restrict to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-27 Florian Frick

Let $H_1$ and $H_2$ be graphs. A graph $G$ has the constrained Ramsey property for $(H_1,H_2)$ if every edge-colouring of $G$ contains either a monochromatic copy of $H_1$ or a rainbow copy of $H_2$. Our main result gives a 0-statement for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Natalie Behague , Robert Hancock , Joseph Hyde , Shoham Letzter , Natasha Morrison

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

Given two graphs $G_1, G_2$, the connected size Ramsey number ${\hat{r}}_c(G_1,G_2)$ is defined to be the minimum number of edges of a connected graph $G$, such that for any red-blue edge colouring of $G$, there is either a red copy of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Sha Wang , Ruyu Song , Yixin Zhang , Yanbo Zhang

Recently, Caro, Patk\'os, and Tuza (2022) introduced the concept of connected Tur\'an number. We study a similar parameter in Ramsey theory. Given two graphs $G_1$ and $G_2$, the size Ramsey number $\hat{r}(G_1,G_2)$ refers to the smallest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-05 Fanghua Guo , Yanbo Zhang , Yunqing Zhang

For given simple graphs $H_1,H_2,\dots,H_c$, the multicolor Ramsey number $R(H_1,H_2,\dots,H_c)$ is defined as the smallest positive integer $n$ such that for an arbitrary edge-decomposition $\{G_i\}^c_{i=1}$ of the complete graph $K_n$, at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Xuejun Zhang , Xinmin Hou

Given graphs $G, H_1, H_2$, we write $G \rightarrow ({H}_1, H_2)$ if every $\{$red, blue$\}$-coloring of the edges of $G$ contains a red copy of $H_1$ or a blue copy of $H_2$. A non-complete graph $G$ is $(H_1, H_2)$-co-critical if $G…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Hunter Davenport , Zi-Xia Song , Fan Yang

A graph is $d$-degenerate if all its subgraphs have a vertex of degree at most $d$. We prove that there exists a constant $c$ such that for all natural numbers $d$ and $r$, every $d$-degenerate graph $H$ of chromatic number $r$ with $|V(H)|…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-02 Choongbum Lee

Burr and Erd\H{o}s in 1975 conjectured, and Chv\'atal, R\"odl, Szemer\'edi and Trotter later proved, that the Ramsey number of any bounded degree graph is linear in the number of vertices. In this paper, we disprove the natural directed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Jacob Fox , Xiaoyu He , Yuval Wigderson

Given a graph $H$, the Ramsey number $R(H)$ is the smallest positive integer $n$ such that every $2$-edge-colouring of $K_n$ yields a monochromatic copy of $H$. We write $mH$ to denote the union of $m$ vertex-disjoint copies of $H$. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-18 József Balogh , Andrea Freschi , Andrew Treglown