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A seminal result of Hajnal and Szemer\'{e}di states that if a graph $G$ with $n$ vertices has minimum degree $\delta(G) \ge (r-1)n/r$ for some integer $r \ge 2$, then $G$ contains a $K_r$-factor, assuming $r$ divides $n$. Extremal examples…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-20 Rajko Nenadov , Yanitsa Pehova

A graph $G$ is said to be Ramsey for a tuple of graphs $(H_1,\dots,H_r)$ if every $r$-coloring of the edges of $G$ contains a monochromatic copy of $H_i$ in color $i$, for some $i$. A fundamental question at the intersection of Ramsey…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Micha Christoph , Anders Martinsson , Raphael Steiner , Yuval Wigderson

For every $k\ge 2$ and $\Delta$, we prove that there exists a constant $C_{\Delta,k}$ such that the following holds. For every graph $H$ with $\chi(H)=k$ and every tree with at least $C_{\Delta,k}|H|$ vertices and maximum degree at most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Richard Montgomery , Matías Pavez-Signé , Jun Yan

Let the grid graph $G_{M\times N}$ denote the Cartesian product $K_M \square K_N$. For a fixed subgraph $H$ of a grid, we study the off-diagonal Ramsey number $\operatorname{gr}(H, K_k)$, which is the smallest $N$ such that any red/blue…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Xiaoyu He , Ghaura Mahabaduge , Krishna Pothapragada , Josh Rooney , Jasper Seabold

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

The Ramsey number $r(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the minimum $N$ such that every red-blue coloring of the edges of the complete graph on $N$ vertices contains a monochromatic copy of $G$. Determining or estimating these numbers is one of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-02-02 Benny Sudakov

We study off-diagonal Ramsey numbers $r(H, K_n^{(k)})$ of $k$-uniform hypergraphs, where $H$ is a fixed linear $k$-uniform hypergraph and $K_n^{(k)}$ is complete on $n$ vertices. Recently, Conlon et al.\ disproved the folklore conjecture…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Xiaoyu He , Jiaxi Nie , Yuval Wigderson , Hung-Hsun Hans Yu

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

Ryser's conjecture says that for every $r$-partite hypergraph $H$ with matching number $\nu(H)$, the vertex cover number is at most $(r-1)\nu(H)$. This far reaching generalization of K\"onig's theorem is only known to be true for $r\leq 3$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-05 Louis DeBiasio , Yigal Kamel , Grace McCourt , Hannah Sheats

Ramsey's Theorem guarantees for every graph H that any 2-edge-coloring of a sufficiently large complete graph contains a monochromatic copy of H. In 1962, Erdos conjectured that the random 2-edge-coloring minimizes the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-22 Daniel Kral , Jan Volec , Fan Wei

A $k$-uniform hypergraph with $n$ vertices is an $(n,k,\ell)$-omitting system if it does not contain two edges whose intersection has size exactly $\ell$. If in addition it does not contain two edges whose intersection has size greater than…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-13 Tom Bohman , Xizhi Liu , Dhruv Mubayi

For a graph $G$, we write $G\rightarrow \big(K_{r+1},\mathcal{T}(n,D)\big)$ if every blue-red colouring of the edges of $G$ contains either a blue copy of $K_{r+1}$, or a red copy of each tree with $n$ edges and maximum degree at most $D$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Pedro Araújo , Luiz Moreira , Matías Pavez-Signé

The induced $q$-color size-Ramsey number $\hat{r}_{\text{ind}}(H;q)$ of a graph $H$ is the minimal number of edges a host graph $G$ can have so that every $q$-edge-coloring of $G$ contains a monochromatic copy of $H$ which is an induced…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Zach Hunter , Benny Sudakov

Estimating the probability that the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph $G(n,m)$ is $H$-free, for a fixed graph $H$, is one of the fundamental problems in random graph theory. If $m$ is such that each edge of $G(n,m)$ belongs to a copy of $H'$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-13 Rajko Nenadov

Given graphs $H_1,H_2$, a graph $G$ is $(H_1,H_2)$-Ramsey if for every colouring of the edges of $G$ with red and blue, there is a red copy of $H_1$ or a blue copy of $H_2$. In this paper we investigate Ramsey questions in the setting of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-18 Shagnik Das , Andrew Treglown

We provide several constructions for problems in Ramsey theory. First, we prove a superexponential lower bound for the classical 4-uniform Ramsey number $r_4(5,n)$, and the same for the iterated $(k-4)$-fold logarithm of the $k$-uniform…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-21 Dhruv Mubayi , Andrew Suk

A celebrated result of Chv\'atal, R\"odl, Szemer\'edi and Trotter states (in slightly weakened form) that, for every natural number $\Delta$, there is a constant $r_\Delta$ such that, for any connected $n$-vertex graph $G$ with maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-10-26 Peter Allen , Graham Brightwell , Jozef Skokan

Let $mH$ be the graph formed by $m$ vertex-disjoint copies of a graph $H$. Let $G \to (H)_r$ denote that, in any $r$-colouring of the edges of $G$, there exists a monochromatic copy of $H$. In 1975, Burr, Erd\H{o}s, and Spencer showed that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Lucas Aragão , Xinbu Cheng , Rafael Filipe , Rafael Miyazaki , Danni Peng , Zhifei Yan

For graphs $F$ and $G$, let $F\to G$ signify that any red/blue edge coloring of $F$ contains a monochromatic $G$. Denote by ${\cal G}(N,p)$ the random graph space of order $N$ and edge probability $p$. Using the regularity method, one can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-03 Ye Wang , Yusheng Li

Let $f^{(r)}(n;s,k)$ denote the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex $r$-uniform hypergraph containing no subgraph with $k$ edges and at most $s$ vertices. Brown, Erd\H{o}s and S\'os [New directions in the theory of graphs (Proc. Third…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Stefan Glock , Jaehoon Kim , Lyuben Lichev , Oleg Pikhurko , Shumin Sun