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In this short note, we provide a new infinite family of $K_{2, t+1}$-free graphs for each prime power $t$. Using these graphs, we show that it is possible to partition the edges of $K_n$ into parts, such that each part is isomorphic to our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Vladislav Taranchuk

For integers $r,t\geq2$ and $n\geq1$ let $f_r(t,n)$ be the minimum, over all factorizations of the complete $r$-uniform hypergraph of order $n$ into $t$ factors $H_1,\dots,H_t$, of $\sum_{i=1}^tc(H_i)$ where $c(H_i)$ is the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-07 Paul Erdős , David P. Galvin , Fred Galvin , Michael M. Krieger

Given a graph $H$ and a function $f(n)$, the Ramsey-Tur\'an number $RT(n,H,f(n))$ is the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex $H$-free graph with independence number at most $f(n)$. For $H$ being a small clique, many results about…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-04 József Balogh , Ce Chen , Grace McCourt , Cassie Murley

Let r be an integer, f(n) a function, and H a graph. Introduced by Erd\H{o}s, Hajnal, S\'{o}s, and Szemer\'edi, the r-Ramsey-Tur\'{a}n number of H, RT_r(n, H, f(n)), is defined to be the maximum number of edges in an n-vertex, H-free graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-29 József Balogh , John Lenz

For edge-ordered graphs $G^{\prec}$ and $H^{\prec}$, the size edge-ordered Ramsey number $\hat{r}_{\text{edge}}(G^{\prec}, H^{\prec})$ is defined as the smallest integer $m$ for which there exists an edge-ordered graph $F^{\prec}$ (with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Yanyan Song , Yaping Mao

In 1974, Erd\H{o}s and Kleitman conjectured that if a family $\mathcal{F}\subseteq 2^{[n]}$ contains no matching of size \(s\) and is maximal with respect to this property, then $ |\mathcal{F}|\ge \left(1-2^{-(s-1)}\right)\cdot 2^{n}. $ For…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Gennian Ge , Jialuo Wang , Zixiang Xu

Finding a reasonably good upper bound for the clique number of Paley graphs is an open problem in additive combinatorics. A recent breakthrough by Hanson and Petridis using Stepanov's method gives an improved upper bound on Paley graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Chi Hoi Yip

The $q$-color Ramsey number of a $k$-uniform hypergraph $H$ is the minimum integer $N$ such that any $q$-coloring of the complete $k$-uniform hypergraph on $N$ vertices contains a monochromatic copy of $H$. The study of these numbers is one…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Domagoj Bradač , Jacob Fox , Benny Sudakov

We focus on two hypergraph Ramsey problems. First, we consider the Erd\H{o}s-Hajnal function $r_k(k+1,t;n)$. In 1972, Erd\H{o}s and Hajnal conjectured that the tower growth rate of $r_k(k+1,t;n)$ is $t-1$ for each $2\le t\le k$. To finish…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Chunchao Fan , Xinyu Hu , Qizhong Lin , Xin Lu

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

For two graphs $G$ and $H$, let $r(G,H)$ and $r_*(G,H)$ denote the Ramsey number and star-critical Ramsey number of $G$ versus $H$, respectively. In 1996, Li and Rousseau proved that $r(K_{m},F_{t,n})=tn(m-1)+1$ for $m\geq 3$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-12 Maoqun Wang , Jianguo Qian

For an integer $k$ at least $2$, and a graph $G$, let $f_k(G)$ be the minimum cardinality of a set $X$ of vertices of $G$ such that $G-X$ has either $k$ vertices of maximum degree or order less than $k$. Caro and Yuster (Discrete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-23 M. Fürst , M. Gentner , M. A. Henning , S. Jäger , D. Rautenbach

Mader proved that for $k\geq 2$ and $n\geq 2k$, every $n$-vertex graph with no $(k+1)$-connected subgraphs has at most $(1+\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}})k(n-k)$ edges. He also conjectured that for $n$ large with respect to $k$, every such graph has at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-08 Anton Bernshteyn , Alexandr Kostochka

We extend Friedman's theorem to show that, for any fixed $r>1$, a random $2r$--regular Schreier graph associated with the action of $r$ uniformly random permutations of $[n]$ on $k_{n}$--tuples of distinct elements in $[n]$ has a…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Ewan Cassidy

Burr and Erd\H{o}s conjectured in 1976 that for every two integers $k>\ell\geqslant 0$ satisfying that $k\mathbb{Z}+\ell$ contains an even integer, an $n$-vertex graph containing no cycles of length $\ell$ modulo $k$ can contain at most a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-06 Yandong Bai , Binlong Li , Yufeng Pan , Shenggui Zhang

We consider a variation of Ramsey numbers introduced by Erd\H{o}s and Pach (1983), where instead of seeking complete or independent sets we only seek a $t$-homogeneous set, a vertex subset that induces a subgraph of minimum degree at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-19 Ross J. Kang , János Pach , Viresh Patel , Guus Regts

A connected graph $G$ with a perfect matching is said to be $k$-extendable for integers $k$, $1 \leq k\leq \frac{|V(G)|}{2}-1$, if any matching in $G$ of size $k$ is contained in a perfect matching of $G$. A $k$-extendable graph is minimal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Jing Guo , Fuliang Lu , Heping Zhang

A $[k,n,1]$-graph is a $k$-partite graph with parts of order $n$ such that the bipartite graph induced by any pair of parts is a matching. An independent transversal in such a graph is an independent set that intersects each part in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-22 Raphael Yuster

An oriented graph has weak diameter at most $d$ if every non-adjacent pair of vertices are connected by a directed $d$-path. The function $f_d(n)$ denotes the minimum number of arcs in an oriented graph on $n$ vertices having weak diameter…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Sandip Das , Koushik Kumar Dey , Pavan P D , Sagnik Sen

Given a graph $G$ and an integer $\ell\ge 2$, we denote by $\alpha_{\ell}(G)$ the maximum size of a $K_{\ell}$-free subset of vertices in $V(G)$. A recent question of Nenadov and Pehova asks for determining the best possible minimum degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Jie Han , Ping Hu , Guanghui Wang , Donglei Yang