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The 2-colouring discrepancy of arithmetic progressions is a well-known problem in combinatorial discrepancy theory. In 1964, Roth proved that if each integer from 0 to N is coloured red or blue, there is some arithmetic progression in which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sujith Vijay

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

Recently, Alon initiated the study of graph codes and their linear variants in analogy to the study of error correcting codes in theoretical computer science. Alon related the maximum density of a linear graph code which avoids images of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Fredy Yip

Given integers $\ell,n$, the $\ell$th power of the path $P_n$ is the ordered graph $P_n^{\ell}$ with vertex set $v_1<v_2<\cdots < v_n$, and all edges of the form $v_iv_j$ where $|i-j|\le \ell$. The ramsey number $r(P_n^{\ell}, P_n^{\ell})$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-30 Dhruv Mubayi

Given a set of $n$ points in $\mathbb R^d$, the (monochromatic) Closest Pair problem asks to find a pair of distinct points in the set that are closest in the $\ell_p$-metric. Closest Pair is a fundamental problem in Computational Geometry…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Karthik C. S. , Pasin Manurangsi

We complete a 40-year old program on the computability-theoretic analysis of Ramsey's theorem, starting with Jockusch in 1972, and improving a result of Chong, Slaman and Yang in 2014. Given a set $X$, let $[X]^n$ be the collection of all…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Benoit Monin , Ludovic Patey

According to a classical result of Szemer\'{e}di, every dense subset of $1,2,...,N$ contains an arbitrary long arithmetic progression, if $N$ is large enough. Its analogue in higher dimensions due to F\"urstenberg and Katznelson says that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-04-13 Adrian Dumitrescu

We study the following Ramsey-theoretic question: given a $q$-coloring of the edges of a tournament, how long of a directed path can we guarantee whose edges avoid one of the colors? Questions of this type have applications in many areas,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Jacob Fox , Benny Sudakov , Yuval Wigderson

The topological Tverberg theorem has been generalized in several directions by setting extra restrictions on the Tverberg partitions. Restricted Tverberg partitions, defined by the idea that certain points cannot be in the same part, are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-11-06 Alexander Engström , Patrik Norén

We say that a graph $H$ is planar unavoidable if there is a planar graph $G$ such that any red/blue coloring of the edges of $G$ contains a monochromatic copy of $H$, otherwise we say that $H$ is planar avoidable. I.e., $H$ is planar…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Maria Axenovich , Carsten Thomassen , Ursula Schade , Torsten Ueckerdt

Given integers $p,q,t$ with $1 \le t \le p$ and $1 \le q \le h_p(t)$, a strong $(p,q,t)$-coloring of the Boolean lattice $B_n$ is a coloring of its $t$-chains such that every induced copy of $B_p$ in $B_n$ uses at least $q$ colors on its…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Gyula O. H. Katona , Yaping Mao

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

The first-order part of the Ramsey's Theorem for pairs with an arbitrary number of colors is known to be precisely BSigma03. We compare this to the known division of Ramsey's Theorem for pairs into the weaker principles, EM (the…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-07-13 Henry Towsner , Keita Yokoyama

The classical Ramsey numbers $r(s,t)$ denote the minimum $n$ such that every red-blue coloring of the edges of the complete graph $K_n$ contains either a red clique of order $s$ or a blue clique of order $t$. These quantities are the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Jacques Verstraete

Denote by $R(G_1, G_2, G_3)$ the minimum integer $N$ such that any three-colouring of the edges of the complete graph on $N$ vertices contains a monochromatic copy of a graph $G_i$ coloured with colour $i$ for some $i\in{1,2,3}$. In a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-31 David G. Ferguson

We give a short survey of problems and results on (1) diameter graphs and hypergraphs, and (2) geometric Ramsey theory. We also make some modest contributions to both areas. Extending a well known theorem of Kahn and Kalai which disproved…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Peter Frankl , János Pach , Christian Reiher , Vojtěch Rödl

Ramsey's theorem states that for any coloring of the n-element subsets of N with finitely many colors, there is an infinite set H such that all n-element subsets of H have the same color. The strength of consequences of Ramsey's theorem has…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Ludovic Patey

An old question in Euclidean Ramsey theory asks, if the points in the plane are red-blue coloured, does there always exist a red pair of points at unit distance or five blue points in line separated by unit distances? An elementary proof…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Sergei Tsaturian

The Erd\H{o}s-Gy\'arf\'as number $f(n, p, q)$ is the smallest number of colors needed to color the edges of the complete graph $K_n$ so that all of its $p$-clique spans at least $q$ colors. In this paper we improve the best known upper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-10 Patrick Bennett , Andrzej Dudek , Sean English

For $t \in \mathbb{N}$, we say that a colouring of $E(K_n)$ is $\textit{almost}$ $t$-$\textit{Gallai}$ if no two rainbow $t$-cliques share an edge. Motivated by a lemma of Berkowitz on bounding the modulus of the characteristic function of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Alexandr Grebennikov , Letícia Mattos , Tibor Szabó