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In recent years, there has been much progress in the field of structural Ramsey theory, in particular in the study of big Ramsey degrees. In all known examples of infinite structures with finite big Ramsey degrees, there is in fact a single…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Jan Hubička , Andy Zucker

We prove that every infinite sequence of skew-symmetric or symmetric matrices M_1, M_2, ... over a fixed finite field must have a pair M_i, M_j (i<j) such that M_i is isomorphic to a principal submatrix of the Schur complement of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-26 Sang-il Oum

We show that any graded digraph $D$ on $n$ vertices with maximum degree $\Delta$ has an oriented Ramsey number of at most $C^\Delta n$ for some absolute constant $C > 1$, improving upon a recent result of Fox, He, and Wigderson. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-03 Patryk Morawski , Yuval Wigderson

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

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

Given a family of graphs $\mathcal{F}$ and an integer $r$, we say that a graph is $r$-Ramsey for $\mathcal{F}$ if any $r$-colouring of its edges admits a monochromatic copy of a graph from $\mathcal{F}$. The threshold for the classic Ramsey…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Eden Kuperwasser , Wojciech Samotij

An ordered graph is a pair $\mathcal{G}=(G,\prec)$ where $G$ is a graph and $\prec$ is a total ordering of its vertices. The ordered Ramsey number $\overline{R}(\mathcal{G})$ is the minimum number $N$ such that every ordered complete graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Martin Balko , Josef Cibulka , Karel Král , Jan Kynčl

For $n\ge 5$ let $T_n'$ denote the unique tree on $n$ vertices with $\Delta(T_n')=n-2$, and let $T_n^*=(V,E)$ be the tree on $n$ vertices with $V=\{v_0,v_1,\ldots,$ $v_{n-1}\}$ and $E=\{v_0v_1,\ldots,v_0v_{n-3},$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-28 Zhi-Hong Sun

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

The notion of treewidth, introduced by Robertson and Seymour in their seminal Graph Minors series, turned out to have tremendous impact on graph algorithmics. Many hard computational problems on graphs turn out to be efficiently solvable in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Michał Ziobro , Marcin Pilipczuk

Ramsey's theorem, concerning the guarantee of certain monochromatic patterns in large enough edge-coloured complete graphs, is a fundamental result in combinatorial mathematics. In this work, we highlight the connection between this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-01 Jurriaan Wouters , Aris Giotis , Ross Kang , Dirk Schuricht , Lars Fritz

The purpose of this survey is to provide a gentle introduction to several recent breakthroughs in graph Ramsey theory. In particular, we will outline the proofs (due to various groups of authors) of exponential improvements to the diagonal,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Robert Morris

An n-vertex graph is called C-Ramsey if it has no clique or independent set of size C log n. All known constructions of Ramsey graphs involve randomness in an essential way, and there is an ongoing line of research towards showing that in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-08 Matthew Kwan , Benny Sudakov

It is known that any planar graph with diameter D has treewidth O(D), and this fact has been used as the basis for several planar graph algorithms. We investigate the extent to which similar relations hold in other graph families. We show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-01-21 David Eppstein

We introduce and study a variant of Ramsey numbers for edge-ordered graphs, that is, graphs with linearly ordered sets of edges. The edge-ordered Ramsey number $\overline{R}_e(\mathfrak{G})$ of an edge-ordered graph $\mathfrak{G}$ is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-16 Martin Balko , Máté Vizer

Let $K_m^{(3)}$ denote the complete $3$-uniform hypergraph on $m$ vertices and $S_n^{(3)}$ the $3$-uniform hypergraph on $n+1$ vertices consisting of all $\binom{n}{2}$ edges incident to a given vertex. Whereas many hypergraph Ramsey…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-10 David Conlon , Jacob Fox , Xiaoyu He , Dhruv Mubayi , Andrew Suk , Jacques Verstraete

A seminal result of Lee asserts that the Ramsey number of any bipartite $d$-degenerate graph $H$ satisfies $\log r(H) = \log n + O(d)$. In particular, this bound applies to every bipartite graph of maximal degree $\Delta$. It remains a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Dylan J. Altschuler , Han Huang , Konstantin Tikhomirov

We consider a generalisation of the classical Ramsey theory setting to a setting where each of the edges of the underlying host graph is coloured with a {\em set} of colours (instead of just one colour). We give bounds for monochromatic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-30 Sebastián Bustamante , Maya Stein

A classical result of Robertson and Seymour (1986) states that the treewidth of a graph is linearly tied to its separation number: the smallest integer $k$ such that, for every weighting of the vertices, the graph admits a balanced…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Maria Chudnovsky , Robert Hickingbotham

Graph sparsification has been studied extensively over the past two decades, culminating in spectral sparsifiers of optimal size (up to constant factors). Spectral hypergraph sparsification is a natural analogue of this problem, for which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Michael Kapralov , Robert Krauthgamer , Jakab Tardos , Yuichi Yoshida