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Sharp exponents for bipartite Erd\H{o}s-Rado numbers

Combinatorics 2024-11-19 v2

Abstract

The Erd\H{o}s-Rado canonization theorem generalizes Ramsey's theorem to edge-colorings with an unbounded number of colors, in the sense that for n=ER(m)n = ER(m) sufficiently large, any edge-coloring of E(Kn)NE(K_n) \to \mathbb{N} will yield some copy of KmK_m which is colored according to one of four canonical patterns. In this paper, we show that in the bipartite setting, the bipartite Erd\H{o}s-Rado number ERB(m)ER_B(m) satisfies logERB(m)=Θ(mlogm). \log ER_B(m) = \Theta(m \log m). Comparing this to the non-bipartite setting, the best known lower and upper bounds on logER(m)\log ER(m) are still separated by a factor of logm\log m.

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@article{arxiv.2410.08982,
  title  = {Sharp exponents for bipartite Erd\H{o}s-Rado numbers},
  author = {Dániel Dobák and Eion Mulrenin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.08982},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

9 pages, comments welcome. Version 2 includes some additional references and open problems

R2 v1 2026-06-28T19:18:05.094Z