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Let G be a finite group. Denoting by cd(G) the set of degrees of the irreducible complex characters of G, we consider the character degree graph of G: this is the (simple undirected) graph whose vertices are the prime divisors of the…
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Big Ramsey degrees of finite structures are usually considered with respect to a Fra\"{i} ss\'e limit. Building mainly on the work of Devlin, Sauer, Laflamme and Van Th\'e, in this paper we consider structures which are not Fra\"{i} ss\'e…
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How small can a set be while containing many configurations? Following up on earlier work of Erd\H os and Kakutani \cite{MR0089886}, M\'ath\'e \cite{MR2822418} and Molter and Yavicoli \cite{Molter}, we address the question in two…