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Ramsey numbers for partially-ordered sets
We present a refinement of Ramsey numbers by considering graphs with a
partial ordering on their vertices. This is a natural extension of the ordered
Ramsey numbers. We formalize situations in which we can use arbitrary families
of partially-ordered sets to form host graphs for Ramsey problems. We explore
connections to well studied Tur\'an-type problems in partially-ordered sets,
particularly those in the Boolean lattice. We find a strong difference between
Ramsey numbers on the Boolean lattice and ordered Ramsey numbers when the
partial ordering on the graphs have large antichains.Comment: 18 pages, 3 figures, 1 tabl
Induced minors and well-quasi-ordering
A graph is an induced minor of a graph if it can be obtained from an
induced subgraph of by contracting edges. Otherwise, is said to be
-induced minor-free. Robin Thomas showed that -induced minor-free
graphs are well-quasi-ordered by induced minors [Graphs without and
well-quasi-ordering, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, 38(3):240 --
247, 1985].
We provide a dichotomy theorem for -induced minor-free graphs and show
that the class of -induced minor-free graphs is well-quasi-ordered by the
induced minor relation if and only if is an induced minor of the gem (the
path on 4 vertices plus a dominating vertex) or of the graph obtained by adding
a vertex of degree 2 to the complete graph on 4 vertices. To this end we proved
two decomposition theorems which are of independent interest.
Similar dichotomy results were previously given for subgraphs by Guoli Ding
in [Subgraphs and well-quasi-ordering, Journal of Graph Theory, 16(5):489--502,
1992] and for induced subgraphs by Peter Damaschke in [Induced subgraphs and
well-quasi-ordering, Journal of Graph Theory, 14(4):427--435, 1990]
An improvement of the general bound on the largest family of subsets avoiding a subposet
Let be the maximum size of a family of subsets of not containing as a (weak) subposet, and let be the length of
a longest chain in . The best known upper bound for in terms of
and is due to Chen and Li, who showed that for any fixed .
In this paper we show that for any fixed , improving the best known upper bound. By choosing appropriately, we
obtain that as a corollary, which we show is best
possible for general . We also give a different proof of this corollary by
using bounds for generalized diamonds. We also show that the Lubell function of
a family of subsets of not containing as an induced subposet is
for every .Comment: Corrected mistakes, improved the writing. Also added a result about
the Lubell function with forbidden induced subposets. The final publication
will be available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11083-016-9390-
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