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    The random graph

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    Erd\H{o}s and R\'{e}nyi showed the paradoxical result that there is a unique (and highly symmetric) countably infinite random graph. This graph, and its automorphism group, form the subject of the present survey.Comment: Revised chapter for new edition of book "The Mathematics of Paul Erd\H{o}s

    Directed Ramsey number for trees

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    In this paper, we study Ramsey-type problems for directed graphs. We first consider the kk-colour oriented Ramsey number of HH, denoted by Rβ†’(H,k)\overrightarrow{R}(H,k), which is the least nn for which every kk-edge-coloured tournament on nn vertices contains a monochromatic copy of HH. We prove that Rβ†’(T,k)≀ck∣T∣k \overrightarrow{R}(T,k) \le c_k|T|^k for any oriented tree TT. This is a generalisation of a similar result for directed paths by Chv\'atal and by Gy\'arf\'as and Lehel, and answers a question of Yuster. In general, it is tight up to a constant factor. We also consider the kk-colour directed Ramsey number R↔(H,k)\overleftrightarrow{R}(H,k) of HH, which is defined as above, but, instead of colouring tournaments, we colour the complete directed graph of order nn. Here we show that R↔(T,k)≀ck∣T∣kβˆ’1 \overleftrightarrow{R}(T,k) \le c_k|T|^{k-1} for any oriented tree TT, which is again tight up to a constant factor, and it generalises a result by Williamson and by Gy\'arf\'as and Lehel who determined the 22-colour directed Ramsey number of directed paths.Comment: 27 pages, 14 figure
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