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Let $H$ be an oriented graph without directed cycle. The oriented Ramsey number of $H$, denoted by $\overrightarrow{r}(H)$, is the smallest integer $N$ such that every tournament on $N$ vertices contains a copy of $H$. Rosenfeld (JCT-B,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Junying Lu , Yaojun Chen

We (re-)prove that in every 3-edge-coloured tournament in which no vertex is incident with all colours there is either a cyclic rainbow triangle or a vertex dominating every other vertex monochromatically.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-04-17 Agelos Georgakopoulos , Philipp Sprüssel

The online Ramsey turnaround game is a game between two players, Builder and Painter, on a board of $n$ vertices using $3$ colors, for a fixed graph $H$ on at most $n$ vertices. The goal of Painter is to force a monochromatic copy of $H$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Nóra Almási , Maria Axenovich

Ramsey Theory deals with avoiding certain patterns. When constructing an instance that avoids one pattern, it is observed that other patterns emerge. For example, repetition emerges when avoiding arithmetic progression (Van der Waerden…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Zhenjun Liu , Leroy Chew , Marijn Heule

We continue to investigate the race between prime numbers in many residue classes modulo $q$, assuming the standard conjectures GRH and LI. We show that provided $n/\log q \rightarrow \infty$ as $q \rightarrow \infty$, we can find $n$…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Kevin Ford , Adam J. Harper , Youness Lamzouri

In 1950 Edward Nelson asked the following simple-sounding question: \emph{How many colors are needed to color the Euclidean plane $\mathbb{E}^2$ such that no two points distance $1$ apart are identically colored?} We say that $1$ is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-17 Geoffrey Exoo , Dan Ismailescu

We consider distance colourings in graphs of maximum degree at most $d$ and how excluding one fixed cycle length $\ell$ affects the number of colours required as $d\to\infty$. For vertex-colouring and $t\ge 1$, if any two distinct vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-06 Ross J. Kang , François Pirot

The notion of forbidden-transition graphs allows for a robust generalization of walks in graphs. In a forbidden-transition graph, every pair of edges incident to a common vertex is permitted or forbidden; a walk is compatible if all pairs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Thomas Bellitto , Shaohua Li , Karolina Okrasa , Marcin Pilipczuk , Manuel Sorge

We study graphs with the property that every edge-colouring admits a monochromatic cycle (the length of which may depend freely on the colouring) and describe those graphs that are minimal with this property. We show that every member in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Damian Reding , Anusch Taraz

The anti-Ramsey number $\mathrm{ar}(n,F)$ of an $r$-graph $F$ is the minimum number of colors needed to color the complete $n$-vertex $r$-graph to ensure the existence of a rainbow copy of $F$. We establish a removal-type result for the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Xizhi Liu , Jialei Song

We prove that every $n$-vertex tournament has at most $n\left(\frac{n-1}{2}\right)^k$ walks of length $k$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-13 Ashwin Sah , Mehtaab Sawhney , Yufei Zhao

A rainbow $q$-coloring of a $k$-uniform hypergraph is a $q$-coloring of the vertex set such that every hyperedge contains all $q$ colors. We prove that given a rainbow $(k - 2\lfloor \sqrt{k}\rfloor)$-colorable $k$-uniform hypergraph, it is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Per Austrin , Amey Bhangale , Aditya Potukuchi

Let $\vec{K}_{\mathbb{N}}$ be the complete symmetric digraph on the positive integers. Answering a question of DeBiasio and McKenney, we construct a 2-colouring of the edges of $\vec{K}_{\mathbb{N}}$ in which every monochromatic path has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Hannah Guggiari

A colouring of the edges of an $n \times n$ grid is said to be \emph{reconstructible} if the colouring is uniquely determined by the multiset of its $n^2$ \emph{tiles}, where the tile corresponding to a vertex of the grid specifies the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Paul Balister , Béla Bollobás , Bhargav Narayanan

We extend two well-known results in Ramsey theory from from $K_n$ to arbitrary $n$-chromatic graphs. The first is a note of Erd\H os and Rado stating that in every 2-coloring of the edges of $K_n$ there is a monochromatic tree on $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Arie Bialostocki , Andras Gyarfas

Casselgren, Markst\"orm, and Pham conjectured that any precolored dis\-tan\-ce-2 matching in the $d$-dimensional cube $Q_d$ with at most $d$ colors can be extended to a proper $d$-edge-coloring. In this paper, we prove this conjecture and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Pál Bärnkopf

A proper $q$-coloring of a domain in $\mathbb{Z}^d$ is a function assigning one of $q$ colors to each vertex of the domain such that adjacent vertices are colored differently. Sampling a proper $q$-coloring uniformly at random, does the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-29 Ron Peled , Yinon Spinka

It is well-known that every tournament has a spanning path. We consider hypergraph analogues. In an \emph{$r$-uniform fully directed hypergraph}, or \emph{$r$-digraph}, every edge is a list or $r$ distinct vertices. An $(r,k)$-tournament is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Richard C. Devine , Kevin G. Milans

Several recent papers have considered the Ramsey-theoretic problem of how large a subset of integers can be without containing any 3-term geometric progressions. This problem has also recently been generalized to number fields, determining…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-22 Megumi Asada , Eva Fourakis , Sarah Manski , Nathan McNew , Steven J. Miller , Gwyneth Moreland

We introduce and study a new type of Ramsey-Turan problems, a typical example of which is the following one: let c>0 and G be a graph of sufficiently large order n with minimum degree >3n/4. If the edges of G are colored in blue or red,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-01-14 Hao Li , Vladimir Nikiforov , Richard Schelp
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