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A class of Ramsey-extremal hypergraphs

Combinatorics 2016-08-30 v1

Abstract

In 1991, McKay and Radziszowski proved that, however each 3-subset of a 13-set is assigned one of two colours, there is some 4-subset whose four 3-subsets have the same colour. More than 25 years later, this remains the only non-trivial classical Ramsey number known for hypergraphs. In this article, we find all the extremal colourings of the 3-subsets of a 12-set and list some of their properties. Using the catalogue, we provide an answer to a question of Dudek, Fleur, Mubayi and R\"odl about the size-Ramsey numbers of hypergraphs.

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@article{arxiv.1608.07762,
  title  = {A class of Ramsey-extremal hypergraphs},
  author = {Brendan D. McKay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.07762},
  year   = {2016}
}
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