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The hedgehog $H_t$ is a 3-uniform hypergraph on vertices $1,\dots,t+\binom{t}{2}$ such that, for any pair $(i,j)$ with $1\le i<j\le t$, there exists a unique vertex $k>t$ such that $\{i,j,k\}$ is an edge. Conlon, Fox, and R\"odl proved that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Jacob Fox , Ray Li

In this paper, we prove that for every $k$ and every graph $H$ with $m$ edges and no isolated vertices, the Ramsey number $R(C_k,H)$ is at most $2m+\lfloor \frac{k-1}{2} \rfloor$, provided $m$ is sufficiently large with respect to $k$. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Stijn Cambie , Andrea Freschi , Patryk Morawski , Kalina Petrova , Alexey Pokrovskiy

For $k \ge 4$, a loose $k$-cycle $C_k$ is a hypergraph with distinct edges $e_1, e_2, \ldots, e_k$ such that consecutive edges (modulo $k$) intersect in exactly one vertex and all other pairs of edges are disjoint. Our main result is that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-29 Dhruv Mubayi , Lujia Wang

We show that, assuming the (deterministic) Exponential Time Hypothesis, distinguishing between a graph with an induced $k$-clique and a graph in which all k-subgraphs have density at most $1-\epsilon$, requires $n^{\tilde \Omega(log n)}$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-05-01 Mark Braverman , Young Kun Ko , Aviad Rubinstein , Omri Weinstein

We use the polynomial method of Guth and Katz to establish stronger and {\it more efficient} regularity and density theorems for such $k$-uniform hypergraphs $H=(P,E)$, where $P$ is a finite point set in ${\mathbb R}^d$, and the edge set…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Natan Rubin

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

A graph on $n$ vertices is called pancyclic if it contains a cycle of every length $3\le l \le n$. Given a Hamiltonian graph $G$ with independence number at most $k$ we are looking for the minimum number of vertices $f(k)$ that guarantees…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-21 Attila Dankovics

Let $\mathcal{H}$ be a 3-uniform hypergraph. The multicolor Ramsey number $ r_k(\mathcal{H})$ is the smallest integer $n$ such that every coloring of $ \binom{[n]}{3}$ with $k$ colors has a monochromatic copy of $\mathcal{H}$. Let $…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-17 Tom Bohman , Emily Zhu

A graph is $H$-Ramsey if every two-coloring of its edges contains a monochromatic copy of $H$. Define the $F$-Ramsey number of $H$, denoted by $r_F(H)$, to be the minimum number of copies of $F$ in a graph which is $H$-Ramsey. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Jacob Fox , Jonathan Tidor , Shengtong Zhang

We consider the unconstrained optimization of multivariate trigonometric polynomials by the sum-of-squares hierarchy of lower bounds. We first show a convergence rate of $O(1/s^2)$ for the relaxation with degree $s$ without any assumption…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-19 Francis Bach , Alessandro Rudi

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

We give a short proof that any k-uniform hypergraph H on n vertices with bounded degree \Delta has Ramsey number at most c(\Delta, k)n, for an appropriate constant c(\Delta, k). This result was recently proved by several authors, but those…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-10-30 David Conlon , Jacob Fox , Benny Sudakov

The $r$-color size-Ramsey number of a $k$-uniform hypergraph $H$, denoted by $\hat{R}_r(H)$, is the minimum number of edges in a $k$-uniform hypergraph $G$ such that for every $r$-coloring of the edges of $G$ there exists a monochromatic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Deepak Bal , Louis DeBiasio , Allan Lo

We study Ramsey properties of randomly perturbed $3$-uniform hypergraphs. For~$t\geq 2$, write $\tilde K^{(3)}_t$ to denote the $3$-uniform {\it expanded} clique hypergraph obtained from the complete graph $K_t$ by expanding each of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Elad Aigner-Horev , Dan Hefetz , Mathias Schacht

The Ramsey number r_k(s,n) is the minimum N such that every red-blue coloring of the k-tuples of an N-element set contains either a red set of size s or a blue set of size n, where a set is called red (blue) if all k-tuples from this set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-08-28 David Conlon , Jacob Fox , Benny Sudakov

Given a graph $H$, we denote by ${\cal M}(H)$ all graphs that can be contracted to $H$. The following extension of the Erd\H{o}s-P\'osa Theorem holds: for every $h$-vertex planar graph $H$, there exists a function $f_{H}$ such that every…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-06-11 Jean-Florent Raymond , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

Given an integer $k\geq 3$ and an initial $k-1$ isolated vertices, an {\em antiregular $k$-hypergraph} is constructed by alternatively adding an isolated vertex (connected to no other vertices) or a dominating vertex (connected to every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-03 Erchuan Zhang

An ordered hypergraph is a hypergraph $H$ with a specified linear ordering of the vertices, and the appearance of an ordered hypergraph $G$ in $H$ must respect the specified order on $V(G)$. In on-line Ramsey theory, Builder iteratively…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-16 Xavier Perez-Gimenez , Pawel Pralat , Douglas B. West

Given a finite point set $P \subset \mathbb{R}^d$, a $k$-ary semi-algebraic relation $E$ on $P$ is the set of $k$-tuples of points in $P$, which is determined by a finite number of polynomial equations and inequalities in $kd$ real…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-20 Andrew Suk

We provide a deterministic polynomial-time algorithm that, for a given $k$-uniform hypergraph $H$ with $n$ vertices and edge density $d$, finds a complete $k$-partite subgraph of $H$ with parts of size at least ${c(d, k)(\log…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Ferran Espuña