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Let $r_k(C_{2m+1})$ be the $k$-color Ramsey number of an odd cycle $C_{2m+1}$ of length $2m+1$. It is shown that for each fixed $m\ge2$, \[r_k(C_{2m+1})<c^{k}\sqrt{k!}\] for all sufficiently large $k$, where $c=c(m)>0$ is a constant. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-25 Qizhong Lin , Weiji Chen

We show that for any positive integer $r$ there exists an integer $k$ and a $k$-colouring of the edges of $K_{2^{k}+1}$ with no monochromatic odd cycle of length less than $r$. This makes progress on a problem of Erd\H{o}s and Graham and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-17 A. Nicholas Day , J. Robert Johnson

We give a polynomial improvement to the cycle-complete Ramsey numbers \[ r(C_{\ell},K_k) \geq k^{1+1/(\ell- 2) + \varepsilon_{\ell} + o(1)}, \] for all fixed odd $\ell > 7$ with $k \rightarrow \infty$, for some $\varepsilon_{\ell} > 0$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Marcelo Campos , Matthew Jenssen , Marcus Michelen , Florian Pfender , Julian Sahasrabudhe

For a graph $G$, the $k$-colour Ramsey number $R_k(G)$ is the least integer $N$ such that every $k$-colouring of the edges of the complete graph $K_N$ contains a monochromatic copy of $G$. Let $C_n$ denote the cycle on $n$ vertices. We show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-22 Matthew Jenssen , Jozef Skokan

For a graph $L$ and an integer $k\geq 2$, $R_k(L)$ denotes the smallest integer $N$ for which for any edge-colouring of the complete graph $K_N$ by $k$ colours there exists a colour $i$ for which the corresponding colour class contains $L$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-08-25 Tomasz Łuczak , Miklós Simonovits , Jozef Skokan

We prove new upper bounds on the multicolour Ramsey numbers of paths and even cycles. It is well known that $(k-1)n+o(n)\leq R_k(P_n)\leq R_k(C_n)\leq kn+o(n)$. The upper bound was recently improved by S\'ark\"ozy who showed that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Ewan Davies , Matthew Jenssen , Barnaby Roberts

The Ramsey number $R(k)$ is the minimum $n \in \mathbb{N}$ such that every red-blue colouring of the edges of the complete graph $K_n$ on $n$ vertices contains a monochromatic copy of $K_k$. We prove that \[ R(k) \leqslant (4 -…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Marcelo Campos , Simon Griffiths , Robert Morris , Julian Sahasrabudhe

Gy\'arf\'as, S\'ark\"ozy and Szemer\'edi proved that the $2$-color Ramsey number $R(\mathcal{C}^k_n,\mathcal{C}^k_n)$ of a $k$-uniform loose cycle $\mathcal{C}^k_n$ is asymptotically $\frac{1}{2}(2k-1)n,$ generating the same result for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Gholamreza Omidi , Maryam Shahsiah

A Gallai coloring of a complete graph is an edge-coloring such that no triangle has all its edges colored differently. A Gallai $k$-coloring is a Gallai coloring that uses $k$ colors. Given an integer $k\ge1$ and a graph $H$, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-31 Christian Bosse , Zi-Xia Song , Jingmei Zhang

It is easy to see that every $k$-edge-colouring of the complete graph on $2^k+1$ vertices contains a monochromatic odd cycle. In 1973, Erd\H{o}s and Graham asked to estimate the smallest $L(k)$ such that every $k$-edge-colouring of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Oliver Janzer , Fredy Yip

The $r$-colour Ramsey number $R_r(k)$ is the minimum $n \in \mathbb{N}$ such that every $r$-colouring of the edges of the complete graph $K_n$ on $n$ vertices contains a monochromatic copy of $K_k$. We prove, for each fixed $r \geqslant 2$,…

We prove a new upper bound for diagonal two-colour Ramsey numbers, showing that there exists a constant $C$ such that \[r(k+1, k+1) \leq k^{- C \frac{\log k}{\log \log k}} \binom{2k}{k}.\]

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David Conlon

The odd-Ramsey number $r_{{\text odd}}(n,H)$ of a graph $H$, as introduced by Alon in his work on graph-codes, is the minimum number of colours needed to edge-colour $K_n$ so that every copy of $H$ intersects some colour class in an odd…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Simona Boyadzhiyska , Shagnik Das , Thomas Lesgourgues , Kalina Petrova

The Ramsey number $r(H)$ of a graph $H$ is the minimum $n$ such that any two-coloring of the edges of the complete graph $K_n$ contains a monochromatic copy of $H$. The threshold Ramsey multiplicity $m(H)$ is then the minimum number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-21 David Conlon , Jacob Fox , Benny Sudakov , Fan Wei

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

In this paper, we prove that for every $k$ and every graph $H$ with $m$ edges and no isolated vertices, the Ramsey number $R(C_k,H)$ is at most $2m+\lfloor \frac{k-1}{2} \rfloor$, provided $m$ is sufficiently large with respect to $k$. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Stijn Cambie , Andrea Freschi , Patryk Morawski , Kalina Petrova , Alexey Pokrovskiy

Given two graphs $G$ and $H$ and a positive integer $k$, the $k$-color Gallai-Ramsey number, denoted by $gr_{k}(G : H)$, is the minimum integer $N$ such that for all $n \geq N$, every $k$-coloring of the edges of $K_{n}$ contains either a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-22 Zhao Wang , Yaping Mao , Colton Magnant , Ingo Sciermeyer , Jinyu Zou

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

A Gallai coloring is a coloring of the edges of a complete graph without rainbow triangles, and a Gallai $k$-coloring is a Gallai coloring that uses at most $k$ colors. For an integer $k\geq 1$, the Gallai-Ramsey number $GR_k(H)$ of a given…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-17 Fangfang Zhang , Zi-Xia Song , Yaojun Chen

We show that, for $n$ large, there must exist at least \[\frac{n^t}{C^{(1+o(1))t^2}}\] monochromatic $K_t$s in any two-colouring of the edges of $K_n$, where $C \approx 2.18$ is an explicitly defined constant. The old lower bound, due to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-12-03 David Conlon
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