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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 show that there is an absolute constant $c>0$ such that the following holds. For every $n > 1$, there is a 5-uniform hypergraph on at least $2^{2^{cn^{1/4}}}$ vertices with independence number at most $n$, where every set of 6 vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Dhruv Mubayi , Andrew Suk , Emily Zhu

A fundamental problem in Ramsey theory is to determine the growth rate in terms of $n$ of the Ramsey number $r(H, K_n^{(3)})$ of a fixed $3$-uniform hypergraph $H$ versus the complete $3$-uniform hypergraph with $n$ vertices. We study this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-03 David Conlon , Jacob Fox , Benjamin Gunby , Xiaoyu He , Dhruv Mubayi , Andrew Suk , Jacques Verstraete

For a graph $H$ and an integer $k\ge1$, let $r(H;k)$ and $r_\ell(H;k)$ denote the $k$-color Ramsey number and list Ramsey number of $H$, respectively. Alon, Buci\'c, Kalvari, Kuperwasser and Szab\'o in 2021 initiated the systematic study of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Jake Ruotolo , Zi-Xia Song

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

We prove that for all $k \ge 3$ and any integers $\Delta, n$ with $n \ge 2^\Delta,$ there exists a $k$-graph on $n$ vertices with maximum degree at most $\Delta$ such that $r(H)\geq\tw_{k-1}(c_k \Delta) \cdot n$ for some constant $c_k > 0$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Chunchao Fan , Qizhong Lin

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

A graph on $n$ vertices is said to be \emph{$C$-Ramsey} if every clique or independent set of the graph has size at most $C \log n$. The only known constructions of Ramsey graphs are probabilistic in nature, and it is generally believed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-08 Bhargav Narayanan , Julian Sahasrabudhe , István Tomon

An $r$-uniform hypergraph $H$ is semi-algebraic of complexity $\mathbf{t}=(d,D,m)$ if the vertices of $H$ correspond to points in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$, and the edges of $H$ are determined by the sign-pattern of $m$ degree-$D$ polynomials.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Zhihan Jin , István Tomon

We investigate Ramsey numbers of bounded degree graphs and provide an interpolation between known results on the Ramsey numbers of general bounded degree graphs and bounded degree graphs of small bandwidth. Our main theorem implies that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-24 Choongbum Lee

A graph $G$ is $q$-Ramsey for another graph $H$ if in any $q$-edge-colouring of $G$ there is a monochromatic copy of $H$, and the classic Ramsey problem asks for the minimum number of vertices in such a graph. This was broadened in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Simona Boyadzhiyska , Dennis Clemens , Shagnik Das , Pranshu Gupta

The anti-Ramsey numbers are a fundamental notion in graph theory, introduced in 1978, by Erd\" os, Simonovits and S\' os. For given graphs $G$ and $H$ the \emph{anti-Ramsey number} $\textrm{ar}(G,H)$ is defined to be the maximum number $k$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Saeed Akhoondian Amiri , Alexandru Popa , Mohammad Roghani , Golnoosh Shahkarami , Reza Soltani , Hossein Vahidi

Let $G$ be a connected graph with $n$ vertices and $n+k-2$ edges and $tK_m$ denote the disjoint union of $t$ complete graphs $K_m$. In this paper, by developing a trichotomy for sparse graphs, we show that for given integers $m\ge 2$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Yanbo Zhang , Yaojun Chen

The size-Ramsey number $\hat{r}(H)$ of a graph $H$ is the smallest number of edges a (host) graph $G$ can have, such that for any red/blue colouring of $G$, there is a monochromatic copy of $H$ in $G$. Recently, Conlon, Nenadov and Truji\'c…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Nemanja Draganić , Kalina Petrova

In a seminal paper from 1983, Burr and Erdos started the systematic study of Ramsey numbers of cliques vs. large sparse graphs, raising a number of problems. In this paper we develop a new approach to such Ramsey problems using a mix of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-06-26 Vladimir Nikiforov , Cecil C. Rousseau

For any positive integers $k$ and $n$, let $B_n^{(k)}$ be the book graph consisting of $n$ copies of the complete graph $K_{k+1}$ sharing a common $K_k$. Let $C_m$ be a cycle of length $m$. Prior work by Allen, \L uczak, Polcyn, and Zhang…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Qizhong Lin , Shixi Song

For graphs G and H, let the induced Ramsey number IR(H,G) be the smallest number of vertices in a graph F such that any coloring of the edges of F in red and blue, there is either a red induced copy of H or a blue induced copy of G. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-05 Maria Axenovich , Izolda Gorgol

Given a pair of graphs $G$ and $H$, the Ramsey number $R(G,H)$ is the smallest $N$ such that every red-blue coloring of the edges of the complete graph $K_N$ contains a red copy of $G$ or a blue copy of $H$. If a graph $G$ is connected, it…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-09 Igor Balla , Alexey Pokrovskiy , Benny Sudakov

A book $B_n$ is a graph which consists of $n$ triangles sharing a common edge. In 1978, Rousseau and Sheehan conjectured that the Ramsey number satisfies $r(B_m,B_n)\le 2(m+n)+c$ for some constant $c>0$. In this paper, we obtain that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-20 Xun Chen , Qizhong Lin , Chunlin You

The size-Ramsey number of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of edges in a graph $H$ such that every 2-edge-coloring of $H$ yields a monochromatic copy of $G$. Size-Ramsey numbers of graphs have been studied for almost 40 years with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-24 Andrzej Dudek , Steven La Fleur , Dhruv Mubayi , Vojtech Rodl