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A graph G is r-Ramsey for a graph H, denoted by G\rightarrow (H)_r, if every r-colouring of the edges of G contains a monochromatic copy of H. The graph G is called r-Ramsey-minimal for H if it is r-Ramsey for H but no proper subgraph of G…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-11 Jacob Fox , Andrey Grinshpun , Anita Liebenau , Yury Person , Tibor Szabo

Let $k$ be a positive integer and let $G$ be a graph. The zero-sum Ramsey number $R(G,\mathbb{Z}_k)$ is the least integer $N$ (if it exists) such that for every edge-coloring $\chi \, : \, E(K_N) \, \rightarrow \, \mathbb{Z}_k$ one can find…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-29 José D. Alvarado , Lucas Colucci , Roberto Parente

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

We study two classical problems in graph Ramsey theory, that of determining the Ramsey number of bounded-degree graphs and that of estimating the induced Ramsey number for a graph with a given number of vertices. The Ramsey number r(H) of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-02-02 David Conlon , Jacob Fox , Benny Sudakov

For a graph G=(V,E), a hypergraph H is called Berge-G if there is a bijection f from E(G) to E(H) such that for each e in E(G), e is a subset of f(e). The set of all Berge-G hypergraphs is denoted B(G). For integers k>1, r>1, and a graph G,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-13 Maria Axenovich , Andras Gyarfas

The Ramsey number r(H) of a graph H is the minimum positive integer N such that every two-coloring of the edges of the complete graph K_N on N vertices contains a monochromatic copy of H. A graph H is d-degenerate if every subgraph of H has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-03-14 Jacob Fox , Benny Sudakov

For a fixed graph $F$, the $\textit{anti-Ramsey number}$, $AR(n,F)$, is the maximum number of colors in an edge-coloring of $K_n$ which does not contain a rainbow copy of $F$. In this paper, we determine the exact value of anti-Ramsey…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Tian-Ying Xie , Long-Tu Yuan

Given an edge colouring of a graph with a set of $m$ colours, we say that the graph is (exactly) $m$-coloured if each of the colours is used. We consider edge colourings of the complete graph on $\mathbb{N}$ with infinitely many colours and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Teeradej Kittipassorn , Bhargav Narayanan

Let $f(K_n, H, q)$ be the minimum number of colors needed to edge-color $K_n$ so that every copy of $H$ is colored with at least $q$ colors. Originally posed by Erd\H{o}s and Shelah when $H$ is complete, the asymptotics of this extremal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Robert A. Krueger

A proper coloring of the vertices of a graph is called a \emph{star coloring} if the union of every two color classes induces a star forest. The star chromatic number $\chi_s(G)$ is the smallest number of colors required to obtain a star…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-17 Yuehua Bu , Daniel W. Cranston , Mickaël Montassier , André Raspaud , Weifan Wang

We study graphs with the property that every edge-colouring admits a monochromatic cycle (the length of which may depend freely on the colouring) and describe those graphs that are minimal with this property. We show that every member in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Damian Reding , Anusch Taraz

A graph $G$ is called $H$-good if $R(G,H)=(|G|-1)(\chi(H)-1)+\sigma(H)$, where $\sigma(H)$ denotes the size of the smallest color class in a $\chi(H)$-coloring of $H$. In Ramsey theory, it is an interesting problem to study whether a graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Abisek Dewan , Sayan Gupta , Rajiv Mishra

A graph $G$ is called a $(3,j;n)$-minimal Ramsey graph if it has the least amount of edges, $e(3,j;n)$, given that $G$ is triangle-free, the independence number $\alpha(G) < j$ and that $G$ has $n$ vertices. Triangle-free graphs $G$ with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-19 Oliver Krüger

We start with a systematic study of the zero-sum Ramsey numbers. For a graph $G$ with $0 \ (\!\!\!\!\mod 3)$ edges, the zero-sum Ramsey number is defined as the smallest positive integer $R(G, \mathbb{Z}_3)$ such that for every $n \geq R(G,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Yair Caro , Xandru Mifsud

Given a graph $G$ and a positive integer $k$, define the \emph{Gallai-Ramsey number} 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 2018-09-28 Zhao Wang , Yaping Mao , Colton Magnant , Jinyu Zou

The following inequality chain $$ ir(G)\le \gamma(G)\le i(G)\le \alpha(G) \le \Gamma(G) \le I\!R(G)$$ is known as a domination chain, where $ir(G), \gamma(G), i(G), \alpha(G), \Gamma(G)$, and $I\!R(G)$ are the lower irredundance number, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Jin Sun , Xinmin Hou

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

A major line of research is discovering Ramsey-type theorems, which are results of the following form: given a graph parameter $\rho$, every graph $G$ with sufficiently large $\rho(G)$ contains a `well-structured' induced subgraph $H$ with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Ilkyoo Choi , Michitaka Furuya , Ringi Kim , Boram Park

Given a graph $H$, the Ramsey number $R(H)$ is the smallest positive integer $n$ such that every $2$-edge-colouring of $K_n$ yields a monochromatic copy of $H$. We write $mH$ to denote the union of $m$ vertex-disjoint copies of $H$. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-18 József Balogh , Andrea Freschi , Andrew Treglown

The following measure of sparsity of multigraphs refining the maximum average degree: For $a>0$ and an arbitrary real $b$, a multigraph $H$ is \emph{$(a,b)$-sparse} if it is loopless and for every $A\subseteq V(H)$ with $|A|\geq 2$, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Ilkyoo Choi , Alexandr V. Kostochka , Matthew Yancey