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Minimum Degrees of Minimal Ramsey Graphs for Almost-Cliques
For graphs and , we say is Ramsey for if every -coloring of
the edges of contains a monochromatic copy of . The graph is Ramsey
-minimal if is Ramsey for and there is no proper subgraph of
so that is Ramsey for . Burr, Erdos, and Lovasz defined to
be the minimum degree of over all Ramsey -minimal graphs . Define
to be a graph on vertices consisting of a complete graph on
vertices and one additional vertex of degree . We show that
for all values ; it was previously known that , so it
is surprising that is much smaller.
We also make some further progress on some sparser graphs. Fox and Lin
observed that for all graphs , where is
the minimum degree of ; Szabo, Zumstein, and Zurcher investigated which
graphs have this property and conjectured that all bipartite graphs without
isolated vertices satisfy . Fox, Grinshpun, Liebenau,
Person, and Szabo further conjectured that all triangle-free graphs without
isolated vertices satisfy this property. We show that -regular -connected
triangle-free graphs , with one extra technical constraint, satisfy ; the extra constraint is that has a vertex so that if one
removes and its neighborhood from , the remainder is connected.Comment: 10 pages; 3 figure
On globally sparse Ramsey graphs
We say that a graph has the Ramsey property w.r.t.\ some graph and
some integer , or is -Ramsey for short, if any -coloring
of the edges of contains a monochromatic copy of . R{\"o}dl and
Ruci{\'n}ski asked how globally sparse -Ramsey graphs can possibly
be, where the density of is measured by the subgraph with
the highest average degree. So far, this so-called Ramsey density is known only
for cliques and some trivial graphs . In this work we determine the Ramsey
density up to some small error terms for several cases when is a complete
bipartite graph, a cycle or a path, and colors are available
Degrees in oriented hypergraphs and sparse Ramsey theory
Let be an -uniform hypergraph. When is it possible to orient the edges
of in such a way that every -set of vertices has some -degree equal
to ? (The -degrees generalise for sets of vertices what in-degree and
out-degree are for single vertices in directed graphs.) Caro and Hansberg asked
if the obvious Hall-type necessary condition is also sufficient.
Our main aim is to show that this is true for large (for given ), but
false in general. Our counterexample is based on a new technique in sparse
Ramsey theory that may be of independent interest.Comment: 20 pages, 3 figure
Density theorems for bipartite graphs and related Ramsey-type results
In this paper, we present several density-type theorems which show how to
find a copy of a sparse bipartite graph in a graph of positive density. Our
results imply several new bounds for classical problems in graph Ramsey theory
and improve and generalize earlier results of various researchers. The proofs
combine probabilistic arguments with some combinatorial ideas. In addition,
these techniques can be used to study properties of graphs with a forbidden
induced subgraph, edge intersection patterns in topological graphs, and to
obtain several other Ramsey-type statements
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