Publisher DOI: 10.1137/21M1444953
Title: On the minimum degree of minimal Ramsey graphs for cliques versus cycles
Language: English
Authors: Bishnoi, Anurag 
Boyadzhiyska, Simona 
Clemens, Dennis  
Gupta, Pranshu 
Lesgourgues, Thomas 
Liebenau, Anita 
Keywords: cliques; cycles; minimum degree; Ramsey theory
Issue Date: Jan-2023
Publisher: Soc.
Source: SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics 37 (1): 25-50 (2023-01)
Abstract (english): 
A graph G is said to be q-Ramsey for a q-tuple of graphs (H1,..., Hq), denoted by G →q (H1,..., Hq), if every q-edge-coloring of G contains a monochromatic copy of Hi in color i for some i ε [q]. Let sq(H1,..., Hq) denote the smallest minimum degree of G over all graphs G that are minimal q-Ramsey for (H1,..., Hq) (with respect to subgraph inclusion). The study of this parameter was initiated in 1976 by Burr, Erdos, and Lovasz, who determined its value precisely for a pair of cliques. Over the past two decades the parameter sq has been studied by several groups of authors, their main focus being on the symmetric case, where Hi ≅ H for all i ε [q]. The asymmetric case, in contrast, has received much less attention. In this paper, we make progress in this direction, studying asymmetric tuples consisting of cliques, cycles, and trees. We determine s2(H1, H2) when (H1, H2) is a pair of one clique and one tree, a pair of one clique and one cycle, and a pair of two different cycles. We also generalize our results to multiple colors and obtain bounds on sq(Cℓ,..., Cℓ, Kt,..., Kt) in terms of the size of the cliques t, the number of cycles, and the number of cliques. Our bounds are tight up to logarithmic factors when two of the three parameters are fixed.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11420/15034
ISSN: 1095-7146
Journal: SIAM journal on discrete mathematics 
Institute: Mathematik E-10 
Document Type: Article
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