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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

An ordered graph $\mathcal{G}$ is a simple graph together with a total ordering on its vertices. The (2-color) Ramsey number of $\mathcal{G}$ is the smallest integer $N$ such that every 2-coloring of the edges of the complete ordered graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-26 Jesse Geneson , Amber Holmes , Xujun Liu , Dana Neidinger , Yanitsa Pehova , Isaac Wass

A graph is $(t_1, t_2)$-Ramsey if any red-blue coloring of its edges contains either a red copy of $K_{t_1}$ or a blue copy of $K_{t_2}$. The size Ramsey number is the minimum number of edges contained in a $(t_1,t_2)$-Ramsey graph.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Sammy Luo , Zixuan Xu

The graph-theoretic Ramsey numbers are notoriously difficult to calculate. In fact, for the two-color Ramsey numbers $R(m,n)$ with $m,n\geq 3$, only nine are currently known. We present a quantum algorithm for the computation of the Ramsey…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Frank Gaitan , Lane Clark

For a given graph $H$, the anti-Ramsey number of $H$ is the maximum number of colors in an edge-coloring of a complete graph which does not contain a rainbow copy of $H$. In this paper, we extend the decomposition family of graphs to the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Long-Tu Yuan , Xiao-Dong Zhang

In 1995 Kim famously proved the Ramsey bound R(3,t) \ge c t^2/\log t by constructing an n-vertex graph that is triangle-free and has independence number at most C \sqrt{n \log n}. We extend this celebrated result, which is best possible up…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-06 He Guo , Lutz Warnke

For two graphs $G,H$, the \emph{Ramsey number} $r(G,H)$ is the minimum integer $n$ such that any red/blue edge-coloring of $K_n$ contains either a red copy of $G$ or a blue copy of $H$. For two graphs $G,H$, the \emph{Gallai-Ramsey number}…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Ping Li , Yaping Mao , Ingo Schiermeyer , Yifan Yao

We determine the vertex-minor Ramsey number $\Rvm(4)=11$, where $\Rvm(k)$ is the smallest~$n$ such that every $n$-vertex graph contains the edgeless graph~$E_k$ as a vertex-minor. We prove this by an exhaustive classification of the graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Ji Ho Bae

Given a graph $H$ and an integer $k\ge1$, the Gallai-Ramsey number $GR_k(H)$ is defined to be the minimum integer $n$ such that every $k$-edge coloring of the complete graph $K_n$ contains either a rainbow (all different colored) triangle…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-16 Qinghong Zhao , Bing Wei

Razborov's flag algebra forms a powerful framework for deriving asymptotic inequalities between induced subgraph densities, underpinning many advances in extremal graph theory. This survey introduces flag algebra to computer scientists…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Gyeongwon Jeong , Seonghun Park , Hongseok Yang

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

Given a graph $G$ and a positive integer $k$, the \emph{Gallai-Ramsey number} is defined to be the minimum number of vertices $n$ such that any $k$-edge coloring of $K_n$ contains either a rainbow (all different colored) triangle or a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-15 Jinyu Zou , Yaping Mao , Colton Magnant , Zhao Wang , Chengfu Ye

The Ramsey problem $R(3, k)$ seeks to determine the smallest value of $n$ such that any red/blue edge coloring of the complete graph on $n$ vertices must either contain a blue triangle (3-clique) or a red clique of size $k$. Despite its…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Zhengyu Li , Conor Duggan , Curtis Bright , Vijay Ganesh

For graphs $G$ and $H$, let $G {\displaystyle\smash{\begin{subarray}{c} \hbox{$\tiny\rm rb$} \\ \longrightarrow \\ \hbox{$\tiny\rm p$} \end{subarray}}}H$ denote the property that for every proper edge-colouring of $G$ there is a rainbow $H$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-20 Yoshiharu Kohayakawa , Guilherme Oliveira Mota , Olaf Parczyk , Jakob Schnitzer

We present a general method for constructing real solutions to some problems in enumerative geometry which gives lower bounds on the maximum number of real solutions. We apply this method to show that two new classes of enumerative…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Frank Sottile

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

The \textit{set-coloring Ramsey number} $\mathrm{R}_{r, s}(G_1,G_2,...,G_r)$ is the least $n \in \mathbb{N}$ such that every coloring $\chi: E\left(K_n\right) \rightarrow\binom{[r]}{s}$ contains a monochromatic copy of $G_i$, that is, a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Mengya He , Yaping Mao

Let $K\_{[k,t]}$ be the complete graph on $k$ vertices from which a set of edges, induced by a clique of order $t$, has been dropped. In this note we give two explicit upper bounds for $R(K\_{[k\_1,t\_1]},\dots, K\_{[k\_r,t\_r]})$ (the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-15 Jonathan Chappelon , Luis Pedro Montejano , Jorge Luis Ramírez Alfonsín

We prove that, for all $k \ge 3,$ and any integers $\Delta, n$ with $n \ge \Delta,$ there exists a $k$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices with maximum degree at most $\Delta$ whose $4$-color Ramsey number is at least $\mathrm{tw}_k(c_k…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Domagoj Bradač , Zach Hunter , Benny Sudakov

The anti-Ramsey number of a graph $G$, introduced by Erd\H{o}s et al.\ in 1975, is the maximum number of colors in an edge-coloring of the complete graph $K_n$ that avoids a rainbow copy of $G$. We call a subset of edges of $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Ali Ghalavand , Qing Jie , Zemin Jin , Xueliang Li , Linshu Pan