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Bipartite Ramsey Numbers and Zarankiewicz Numbers
The bipartite Ramsey number b(m, n) is the minimum b such that any 2-coloring of Kb,b results in a monochromatic Km,m subgraph in the first color or a monochromatic Kn,n subgraph in the second color. The Zarankiewicz number z(m, n; s, t) is the maximum size among Ks,t-free subgraphs of Km,n. In this work, we discuss the intimate relationship between the two numbers as well as propose a new method for bounding the Zarankiewicz numbers. We use the better bounds to improve the upper bound on b(2, 5), in addition we improve the lower bound of b(2, 5) by construction. The new bounds are shown to be 17 ≤ b(2, 5) ≤ 18. Additionally, we apply the same methods to the multicolor case b(2, 2, 3) which has previously not been studied and determine bounds to be 16 ≤ b(2, 2, 3) ≤ 23
The history of degenerate (bipartite) extremal graph problems
This paper is a survey on Extremal Graph Theory, primarily focusing on the
case when one of the excluded graphs is bipartite. On one hand we give an
introduction to this field and also describe many important results, methods,
problems, and constructions.Comment: 97 pages, 11 figures, many problems. This is the preliminary version
of our survey presented in Erdos 100. In this version 2 only a citation was
complete
Density version of the Ramsey problem and the directed Ramsey problem
We discuss a variant of the Ramsey and the directed Ramsey problem. First,
consider a complete graph on vertices and a two-coloring of the edges such
that every edge is colored with at least one color and the number of bicolored
edges is given. The aim is to find the maximal size of a
monochromatic clique which is guaranteed by such a coloring. Analogously, in
the second problem we consider semicomplete digraph on vertices such that
the number of bi-oriented edges is given. The aim is to bound the
size of the maximal transitive subtournament that is guaranteed by such a
digraph.
Applying probabilistic and analytic tools and constructive methods we show
that if , (), then where only depend on , while if then . The latter case is
strongly connected to Tur\'an-type extremal graph theory.Comment: 17 pages. Further lower bound added in case $|E_{RB}|=|E_{bi}| =
p{n\choose 2}
Erdos-Hajnal-type theorems in hypergraphs
The Erdos-Hajnal conjecture states that if a graph on n vertices is H-free,
that is, it does not contain an induced copy of a given graph H, then it must
contain either a clique or an independent set of size n^{d(H)}, where d(H) > 0
depends only on the graph H. Except for a few special cases, this conjecture
remains wide open. However, it is known that a H-free graph must contain a
complete or empty bipartite graph with parts of polynomial size. We prove an
analogue of this result for 3-uniform hypergraphs, showing that if a 3-uniform
hypergraph on n vertices is H-free, for any given H, then it must contain a
complete or empty tripartite subgraph with parts of order c(log n)^{1/2 +
d(H)}, where d(H) > 0 depends only on H. This improves on the bound of c(log
n)^{1/2}, which holds in all 3-uniform hypergraphs, and, up to the value of the
constant d(H), is best possible. We also prove that, for k > 3, no analogue of
the standard Erdos-Hajnal conjecture can hold in k-uniform hypergraphs. That
is, there are k-uniform hypergraphs H and sequences of H-free hypergraphs which
do not contain cliques or independent sets of size appreciably larger than one
would normally expect.Comment: 15 page
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