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At the beginning of 1950's Erd\H os and Rado suggested the investigation of the Ramsey-type results where the number of colors is not finite. This marked the birth of the so-called canonizing Ramsey theory. In 1985 Pr\"omel and Voigt made…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Dragan Masulovic

In this paper we examine the reverse mathematical strength of a variation of Hindman's Theorem HT constructed by essentially combining HT with the Thin Set Theorem TS to obtain a principle which we call thin-HT. thin-HT says that every…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-06-13 Denis R. Hirschfeldt , Sarah C. Reitzes

Let $\mathsf{TT}^2_k$ denote the combinatorial principle stating that every $k$-coloring of pairs of compatible nodes in the full binary tree has a homogeneous solution, i.e. an isomorphic subtree in which all pairs of compatible nodes have…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-12-20 Chi Tat Chong , Wei Li , Lu Liu , Yue Yang

Building upon previous works by Conlon-Ferber and Wigderson, Sawin showed a few years ago that upper bounds on the minimum density of independent sets in a $K_t$-free $G$ can be used to provide lower bounds for multicolor Ramsey numbers. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Marcelo Campos , Cosmin Pohoata

We explore a general method based on trees of elementary submodels in order to present highly simplified proofs to numerous results in infinite combinatorics. While countable elementary submodels have been employed in such settings already,…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-02-06 Dániel T. Soukup , Lajos Soukup

We prove a rainbow version of the blow-up lemma of Koml\'os, S\'ark\"ozy and Szemer\'edi for $\mu n$-bounded edge colourings. This enables the systematic study of rainbow embeddings of bounded degree spanning subgraphs. As one application,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-11 Stefan Glock , Felix Joos

A relational structure $\mathrm{R}$ is {\em rainbow Ramsey} if for every finite induced substructure $\mathrm{C}$ of $\mathrm{R}$ and every colouring of the copies of $\mathrm{C}$ with countably many colours, such that each colour is used…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-26 Natasha Dobrinen , Claude Laflamme , Norbert Sauer

Ramsey theory is a central and active branch of combinatorics. Although Ramsey numbers for graphs have been extensively investigated since Ramsey's work in the 1930s, there is still an exponential gap between the best known lower and upper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-03 António Girão , Gal Kronenberg , Alex Scott

Ramsey's theorem, concerning the guarantee of certain monochromatic patterns in large enough edge-coloured complete graphs, is a fundamental result in combinatorial mathematics. In this work, we highlight the connection between this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-01 Jurriaan Wouters , Aris Giotis , Ross Kang , Dirk Schuricht , Lars Fritz

Among the Ramsey-type hierarchies, namely, Ramsey's theorem, the free set, the thin set and the rainbow Ramsey theorem, only Ramsey's theorem is known to collapse in reverse mathematics. A promising approach to show the strictness of the…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Ludovic Patey

This paper presents a path to proving the Four-Color Theorem that differs from the traditional "reducible configuration" method. By introducing concepts such as "outer boundary," "primitive set," "Property A," "knot," "valid pair group,"…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Dagong Ding

A recent breakthrough of Conlon and Ferber yielded an exponential improvement on the lower bounds for multicolor diagonal Ramsey numbers. In this note, we modify their construction and obtain improved bounds for more than three colors.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-11 Yuval Wigderson

Hindman proved in 1979 that no matter how natural numbers are colored in r colors, for a fixed positive integer r, there is an infinite subset X of numbers and a color t such that for any finite non-empty subset X' of X, the color of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Maria Axenovich , David S. Gunderson , Hanno Lefmann

In this paper we prove a new result about partitioning coloured complete graphs and use it to determine certain Ramsey numbers exactly. The partitioning theorem we prove is that for k at least 1, in every edge colouring of a complete graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-17 Alexey Pokrovskiy

This paper is a survey of recent results and methods in (Tarskian) algebraic logic. We focus on cylindric algebras. Fix 2<n<\omega. Rainbow constructions are used to solve problems on classes consisting of algebras having a neat embedding…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-02-27 Tarek Sayed Ahmed

A nearly logarithmic lower bound on the randomized competitive ratio for the metrical task systems problem is presented. This implies a similar lower bound for the extensively studied k-server problem. The proof is based on Ramsey-type…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Yair Bartal , Bela Bollobas , Manor Mendel

We prove that double exponentiation is an upper bound to Ramsey theorem for colouring of pairs when we want to predetermine the order of the differences of successive members of the homogeneous set.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Saharon Shelah

The purpose is to study the strength of Ramsey's Theorem for pairs restricted to recursive assignments of $k$-many colors, with respect to Intuitionistic Heyting Arithmetic. We prove that for every natural number $k \geq 2$, Ramsey's…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-01-11 Stefano Berardi , Silvia Steila

We collect some of our favorite proofs of Brooks' Theorem, highlighting advantages and extensions of each. The proofs illustrate some of the major techniques in graph coloring, such as greedy coloring, Kempe chains, hitting sets, and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-15 Daniel W. Cranston , Landon Rabern

A well-known result by Graham in Euclidean Ramsey Theory states that, for every positive real number $A$, every coloring of the plane with finite number of colors contains a monochromatic triangle of area $A$. We consider canonical versions…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Sukumar Das Adhikari , Tássio Naia , Oriol Serra