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This article is concerned with classes of relational structures that are closed under taking substructures and isomorphism, that have the joint embedding property, and that furthermore have the Ramsey property, a strong combinatorial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Manuel Bodirsky

Automatic structures are infinite structures that are finitely represented by synchronized finite-state automata. This paper concerns specifically automatic structures over finite words and trees (ranked/unranked). We investigate the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Pascal Bergsträßer , Moses Ganardi , Anthony W. Lin , Georg Zetzsche

The compactness theorem for a logic states, roughly, that the satisfiability of a set of well-formed formulas can be determined from the satisfiability of its finite subsets, and vice versa. Usually, proofs of this theorem depend on the…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Sayantan Roy , Sankha S. Basu , Mihir K. Chakraborty

Close connections between various notions of entropy and the apparatus of category theory have been observed already in the 1980s and more vigorously developed in the past ten years. The starting point of the paper is the recent categorical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-25 Dragan Mašulović

We introduce the notion of a {\it semi-retraction}. Given two structures $\A$ and $\B$, $\A$ is a semi-retraction of $\B$ if there exist quantifier-free type respecting maps $f: \B \raw \A$ and $g: \A \raw \B$ such that $f \circ g$ is an…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Lynn Scow

We identify a notion of reducibility between predicates, called instance reducibility, which commonly appears in reverse constructive mathematics. The notion can be generally used to compare and classify various principles studied in…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Andrej Bauer

We generalize the notion of relational precompact expansions of Fra\"iss\'e classes via functorial means, inspired by the technique outlined by Laflamme, Nguyen Van Th\'e and Sauer in their paper Partition properties of the dense local…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-28 Keegan Dasilva Barbosa

Analogues of Ramsey's Theorem for infinite structures such as the rationals or the Rado graph have been known for some time. In this context, one looks for optimal bounds, called degrees, for the number of colors in an isomorphic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-03 Natasha Dobrinen

We study the uniform computational content of Ramsey's theorem in the Weihrauch lattice. Our central results provide information on how Ramsey's theorem behaves under product, parallelization and jumps. From these results we can derive a…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-11-12 Vasco Brattka , Tahina Rakotoniaina

Ramsey's theorem states that for all finite colorings of an infinite set, there exists an infinite homogeneous subset. What if we seek a homogeneous subset that is also order-equivalent to the original set? Let $S$ be a linearly ordered set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Joanna Boyland , William Gasarch , Nathan Hurtig , Robert Rust

Ramsey's theorem states that each coloring has an infinite homogeneous set, but these sets can be arbitrarily spread out. Paul Erdos and Fred Galvin proved that for each coloring f, there is an infinite set that is "packed together" which…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-02-12 Stephen Flood

Using the Carlson-Simpson theorem, we give a new general condition for a structure in a finite binary relational language to have finite big Ramsey degrees

We prove a new characterization of the Ramsey property of categories in terms of a generalized form of K\H{o}nig's tree lemma. Afterwards, we discuss its applications to structural Ramsey theory. In particular, we provide a new proof of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Maximilian Hadek

Many natural notions of additive and multiplicative largeness arise from results in Ramsey theory. In this paper, we explain the relationships between these notions for subsets of $\mathbb{N}$ and in more general ring-theoretic structures.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Vitaly Bergelson , Daniel Glasscock

This paper introduces the concept of a productive notion of big Ramsey degree and showcases its versatility through a handful of applications. The main focus is notably providing sufficient conditions for the existence of a finite canonical…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Keegan Dasilva Barbosa

We show that Ramsey theory, a domain presently conceived to guarantee the existence of large homogeneous sets for partitions on k-tuples of words (for every natural number k) over a finite alphabet, can be extended to one for partitions on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 V. Farmaki , S. Negrepontis

We define a collection of topological Ramsey spaces consisting of equivalence relations on $\omega$ with the property that the minimal representatives of the equivalence classes alternate according to a fixed partition of $\omega$. To prove…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Jamal K. Kawach , Stevo Todorcevic

One way of studying a relational structure is to investigate functions which are related to that structure and which leave certain aspects of the structure invariant. Examples are the automorphism group, the self-embedding monoid, the…

Logic · Mathematics 2011-05-31 Manuel Bodirsky , Michael Pinsker

We consider a Ramsey statement for pairs of maps between trees, where one is an embedding as defined by Deuber and the other is a rigid surjection as defined by Solecki. We show that there is no Ramsey Theorem for pairs of maps where the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Sebastian Junge

We prove that each finite chain in the two-branching countable ultrahomogeneous pseudotree has finite big Ramsey degrees. This is in contrast to the recent result of Chodounsk\'{y}, Eskew, and Weinert that antichains of size two have…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-03-10 David Chodounský , Natasha Dobrinen , Thilo Weinert