English

Finite trees are Ramsey under topological embeddings

Combinatorics 2010-05-26 v1

Abstract

We show that the class of finite rooted binary plane trees is a Ramsey class (with respect to topological embeddings that map leaves to leaves). That is, for all such trees P,H and every natural number k there exists a tree T such that for every k-coloring of the (topological) copies of P in T there exists a (topological) copy H' of H in T such that all copies of P in H' have the same color. When the trees are represented by the so-called rooted triple relation, the result gives rise to a Ramsey class of relational structures with respect to induced substructures.

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@article{arxiv.1002.1557,
  title  = {Finite trees are Ramsey under topological embeddings},
  author = {Manuel Bodirsky and Diana Piguet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.1557},
  year   = {2010}
}

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8 pages, 1 figure

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