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The Ramsey number $r(G,H)$ is the minimum $N$ such that every graph on $N$ vertices contains $G$ as a subgraph or its complement contains $H$ as a subgraph. For integers $n \geq k \geq 1$, the $k$-book $B_{k,n}$ is the graph on $n$ vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-17 Jacob Fox , Xiaoyu He , Yuval Wigderson

A graph on 5 vertices consisting of 2 copies of the cycle graph C3 sharing a common vertex is called the Butterfly graph (B). The smallest natural number s such that any two-colouring (say red and blue) of the edges of Kj*s has a copy of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Chula Jayawardene , Lilanthi Samarasekara

We say that a graph $G$ has the Ramsey property w.r.t.\ some graph $F$ and some integer $r\geq 2$, or $G$ is $(F,r)$-Ramsey for short, if any $r$-coloring of the edges of $G$ contains a monochromatic copy of $F$. R{\"o}dl and Ruci{\'n}ski…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-16 Torsten Mütze , Ueli Peter

Let $n,r,k,s$ be positive integers with $n,k\ge 2$. The generalized Ramsey number $R(n,r;k,s)$ is the smallest positive integer $p$ such that for every graph $G$ of order $p$, either $G$ contains a subgraph induced by $n$ vertices with at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-06 Zhi-Hong Sun

Let $G, H$ be two non-empty graphs and $k$ be a positive integer. The Gallai-Ramsey number $\operatorname{gr}_k(G:H)$ is defined as the minimum positive integer $N$ such that for all $n\geq N$, every $k$-edge-coloring of $K_n$ contains…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Xueliang Li , Yuan Si

Let $G$ be a connected graph on $n$ vertices and at most $n(1+\epsilon)$ edges with bounded maximum degree, and $F$ a graph on $n$ vertices with minimum degree at least $n-k$, where $\epsilon$ is a constant depending on $k$. In this paper,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Ting Huang , Yanbo Zhang , Yaojun Chen

In this paper, for sufficiently large $n$ we determine the Ramsey number $R(G,nH)$ where $G$ is a $k$-uniform hypergraph with the maximum independent set that intersects each of the edges in $k-1$ vertices and $H$ is a $k$-uniform…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-03-05 Gholam Reza Omidi , Ghaffar raeisi

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

For a graph $G$ with $n$ vertices and a positive integer $k \leq n$, let $s_k(G)$ be the number of subtrees (subgraphs that are trees, not necessarily induced) of $G$ with $k$ vertices. The subtree polynomial of $G$ is $S(G;x) =…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Stephan Wagner , Ruoyu Wang

The $k$-representation number of a graph $G$ is the minimum cardinality of the system of vertex subsets with the property that every edge of $G$ is covered at least $k$ times while every non-edge is covered at most $(k-1)$ times. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Ayush Basu , Vojtěch Rödl , Marcelo Sales

Let the star on $n$ vertices, namely $K_{1,n-1}$ be denoted by $S_n$. If every two coloring of the edges of a complete balanced multipartite graph $K_{j \times s}$ there is a copy of $S_n$ in the first color or a copy of $S_m$ in the second…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-08 C. J. Jayawardene

Assume that $K_{j\times n}$ be a complete, multipartite graph consisting of $j$ partite sets and $n$ vertices in each partite set. For given graphs $G_1, G_2,\ldots, G_n$, the multipartite Ramsey number (M-R-number) $m_j(G_1, G_2,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-13 Yaser Rowshan

The Ramsey number $R_X(p,q)$ for a class of graphs $X$ is the minimum $n$ such that every graph in $X$ with at least $n$ vertices has either a clique of size $p$ or an independent set of size $q$. We say that Ramsey numbers are linear in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-07 Bogdan Alecu , Aistis Atminas , Vadim Lozin , Viktor Zamaraev

Given a graph $G$, its Ramsey number $r(G)$ is the minimum $N$ so that every two-coloring of $E(K_N)$ contains a monochromatic copy of $G$. It was conjectured by Conlon, Fox, and Sudakov that if one deletes a single vertex from $G$, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Yuval Wigderson

Let $G, H$ be finite graphs without loops or multiple edges and $K_n$ denote the complete graph on $n$ vertices. If for every red/blue colouring of edges of the complete graph $K_n$, there exists a red copy of $G$, or a blue copy of $H$, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-14 C. J. Jayawardene , J. N. Senadheera , K. A. S. N. Fernando , W. C. W Navaratna

Assume that $K_{j\times n}$ be a complete, multipartite graph consisting of $j$ partite sets and $n$ vertices in each partite set. For given graphs $G_1, G_2,\ldots, G_n$, the multipartite Ramsey number (M-R-number) $m_j(G_1, G_2,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Yaser Rowshan

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

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

Ramsey's Theorem states that a graph $G$ has bounded order if and only if $G$ contains no complete graph $K_n$ or empty graph $E_n$ as its induced subgraph. The Gy\'arf\'as-Sumner conjecture says that a graph $G$ has bounded chromatic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Jin Sun , Xinmin Hou

Given a graph $H$, the Ramsey number $r(H)$ is the smallest natural number $N$ such that any two-colouring of the edges of $K_N$ contains a monochromatic copy of $H$. The existence of these numbers has been known since 1930 but their…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-12 David Conlon , Jacob Fox , Benny Sudakov