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Hypergraph Ramsey numbers with quasipolynomial growth rate

Combinatorics 2026-03-18 v1

Abstract

For a 3-uniform hypergraph (3-graph) FF, let r(F,n)r(F,n) be the smallest NN such that any NN-vertex FF-free 3-graph has an independent set of size nn. We construct a 33-graph H2H_2 with six vertices and five edges such that r(H2,n)=nΘ(logn)r(H_2,n)=n^{\Theta(\log n)}, and a more general family of 33-graphs FF for which r(F,n)=nlogΘ(1)(n)r(F,n)=n^{\log^{\Theta(1)}(n)}. These are the first examples of such Ramsey number known to be neither polynomial nor exponential.

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@article{arxiv.2603.16069,
  title  = {Hypergraph Ramsey numbers with quasipolynomial growth rate},
  author = {Xiaoyu He and Jiaxi Nie and Logan Post and Jacques Verstraëte},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.16069},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

9 pages, 4 figures. Comments are welcome!

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