scholarly journals On-line Ramsey Theory for Bounded Degree Graphs

10.37236/623 ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Butterfield ◽  
Tracy Grauman ◽  
William B. Kinnersley ◽  
Kevin G. Milans ◽  
Christopher Stocker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ramsey Theory ◽  
Upper Bounds ◽  
Ramsey Number ◽  
Bounded Degree ◽  
Linear Forest ◽  
On Line ◽  
Bounded Degree Graphs ◽  
Vertex Degrees ◽  
Delta G ◽  
Monochromatic Copy

When graph Ramsey theory is viewed as a game, "Painter" 2-colors the edges of a graph presented by "Builder". Builder wins if every coloring has a monochromatic copy of a fixed graph $G$. In the on-line version, iteratively, Builder presents one edge and Painter must color it. Builder must keep the presented graph in a class ${\cal H}$. Builder wins the game $(G,{\cal H})$ if a monochromatic copy of $G$ can be forced. The on-line degree Ramsey number $\mathring {R}_\Delta(G)$ is the least $k$ such that Builder wins $(G,{\cal H})$ when ${\mathcal H}$ is the class of graphs with maximum degree at most $k$. Our results include: 1) $\mathring {R}_\Delta(G)\!\le\!3$ if and only if $G$ is a linear forest or each component lies inside $K_{1,3}$. 2) $\mathring {R}_\Delta(G)\ge \Delta(G)+t-1$, where $t=\max_{uv\in E(G)}\min\{d(u),d(v)\}$. 3) $\mathring {R}_\Delta(G)\le d_1+d_2-1$ for a tree $G$, where $d_1$ and $d_2$ are two largest vertex degrees. 4) $4\le \mathring {R}_\Delta(C_n)\le 5$, with $\mathring {R}_\Delta(C_n)=4$ except for finitely many odd values of $n$. 5) $\mathring {R}_\Delta(G)\le6$ when $\Delta(G)\le 2$. The lower bounds come from strategies for Painter that color edges red whenever the red graph remains in a specified class. The upper bounds use a result showing that Builder may assume that Painter plays "consistently".

scholarly journals Trees with an On-Line Degree Ramsey Number of Four

10.37236/660 ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Rolnick
Keyword(s):  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Ramsey Theory ◽  
Complete Classification ◽  
Ramsey Number ◽  
On Line ◽  
Delta G ◽  
Goal Graph ◽  
Monochromatic Copy

On-line Ramsey theory studies a graph-building game between two players. The player called Builder builds edges one at a time, and the player called Painter paints each new edge red or blue after it is built. The graph constructed is called the background graph. Builder's goal is to cause the background graph to contain a monochromatic copy of a given goal graph, and Painter's goal is to prevent this. In the $S_k$-game variant of the typical game, the background graph is constrained to have maximum degree no greater than $k$. The on-line degree Ramsey number $\mathring{R}_{\Delta}(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the minimum $k$ such that Builder wins an $S_k$-game in which $G$ is the goal graph. Butterfield et al. previously determined all graphs $G$ satisfying $\mathring{R}_{\Delta}(G)\le 3$. We provide a complete classification of trees $T$ satisfying $\mathring{R}_{\Delta}(T)=4$.

scholarly journals Degree Ramsey Numbers of Graphs

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 229-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILLIAM B. KINNERSLEY ◽  
KEVIN G. MILANS ◽  
DOUGLAS B. WEST
Keyword(s):  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Double Star ◽  
Ramsey Number ◽  
Bounded Degree ◽  
Ramsey Numbers ◽  
Colour Class ◽  
Bounded Degree Graphs ◽  
Edge Colourings ◽  
Edge Colouring ◽  
Monochromatic Copy

Let HG mean that every s-colouring of E(H) produces a monochromatic copy of G in some colour class. Let the s-colour degree Ramsey number of a graph G, written RΔ(G; s), be min{Δ(H): HG}. If T is a tree in which one vertex has degree at most k and all others have degree at most ⌈k/2⌉, then RΔ(T; s) = s(k − 1) + ϵ, where ϵ = 1 when k is odd and ϵ = 0 when k is even. For general trees, RΔ(T; s) ≤ 2s(Δ(T) − 1).To study sharpness of the upper bound, consider the double-starSa,b, the tree whose two non-leaf vertices have degrees a and b. If a ≤ b, then RΔ(Sa,b; 2) is 2b − 2 when a < b and b is even; it is 2b − 1 otherwise. If s is fixed and at least 3, then RΔ(Sb,b;s) = f(s)(b − 1) − o(b), where f(s) = 2s − 3.5 − O(s−1).We prove several results about edge-colourings of bounded-degree graphs that are related to degree Ramsey numbers of paths. Finally, for cycles we show that RΔ(C2k + 1; s) ≥ 2s + 1, that RΔ(C2k; s) ≥ 2s, and that RΔ(C4;2) = 5. For the latter we prove the stronger statement that every graph with maximum degree at most 4 has a 2-edge-colouring such that the subgraph in each colour class has girth at least 5.

scholarly journals On-line Ramsey Theory

10.37236/1810 ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Grytczuk ◽  
M. Hałuszczak ◽  
H. A. Kierstead
Keyword(s):  
Planar Graphs ◽  
Ramsey Theory ◽  
Winning Strategy ◽  
Fixed Target ◽  
Outerplanar Graphs ◽  
On Line ◽  
Ramsey Type ◽  
Colorable Graph ◽  
Monochromatic Copy

The Ramsey game we consider in this paper is played on an unbounded set of vertices by two players, called Builder and Painter. In one move Builder introduces a new edge and Painter paints it red or blue. The goal of Builder is to force Painter to create a monochromatic copy of a fixed target graph $H$, keeping the constructed graph in a prescribed class ${\cal G}$. The main problem is to recognize the winner for a given pair $H,{\cal G}$. In particular, we prove that Builder has a winning strategy for any $k$-colorable graph $H$ in the game played on $k$-colorable graphs. Another class of graphs with this strange self-unavoidability property is the class of forests. We show that the class of outerplanar graphs does not have this property. The question of whether planar graphs are self-unavoidable is left open. We also consider a multicolor version of Ramsey on-line game. To extend our main result for $3$-colorable graphs we introduce another Ramsey type game, which seems interesting in its own right.

scholarly journals Size Ramsey Number of Bounded Degree Graphs for Games

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-516
Author(s):  
HEIDI GEBAUER
Keyword(s):  
Connected Graph ◽  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Ramsey Number ◽  
Bounded Degree ◽  
Minimum Number ◽  
Game Theoretic ◽  
Bounded Degree Graphs ◽  
Constant Maximum

We study Maker/Breaker games on the edges ofsparsegraphs. Maker and Breaker take turns at claiming previously unclaimed edges of a given graphH. Maker aims to occupy a given target graphGand Breaker tries to prevent Maker from achieving his goal. We show that for everydthere is a constantc=c(d)with the property that for every graphGonnvertices of maximum degreedthere is a graphHon at mostcnedges such that Maker has a strategy to occupy a copy ofGin the game onH.This is a result about a game-theoretic variant of the size Ramsey number. For a given graphG,$\hat{r}'(G)$is defined as the smallest numberMfor which there exists a graphHwithMedges such that Maker has a strategy to occupy a copy ofGin the game onH. In this language, our result yields that for every connected graphGof constant maximum degree,$\hat{r}'(G) = \Theta(n)$.Moreover, we can also use our method to settle the corresponding extremal number foruniversalgraphs: for a constantdand for the class${\cal G}_{n}$ofn-vertex graphs of maximum degreed,$s({\cal G}_{n})$denotes the minimum number such that there exists a graphHwithMedges where, foreveryG∈${\cal G}_{n}$, Maker has a strategy to build a copy ofGin the game onH. We obtain that$s({\cal G}_{n}) = \Theta(n^{2 - \frac{2}{d}})$.

scholarly journals Degree Ramsey Numbers of Closed Blowups of Trees

10.37236/2526 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Horn ◽  
Kevin G. Milans ◽  
Vojtěch Rödl
Keyword(s):  
Bipartite Graph ◽  
Complete Bipartite Graph ◽  
Edge Coloring ◽  
Ramsey Number ◽  
Ramsey Numbers ◽  
Delta G ◽  
Monochromatic Copy

The degree Ramsey number of a graph $G$, denoted $R_\Delta(G;s)$, is $\min\{\Delta(H)\colon\, H\stackrel{s}{\to} G\}$, where $H\stackrel{s}{\to} G$ means that every $s$-edge-coloring of $H$ contains a monochromatic copy of $G$.  The closed $k$-blowup of a graph is obtained by replacing every vertex with a clique of size $k$ and every edge with a complete bipartite graph where both partite sets have size $k$.  We prove that there is a function $f$ such that $R_\Delta(G;s) \le f(\Delta(G), s)$  when $G$ is a closed blowup of a tree.

scholarly journals Improved Bounds for Centered Colorings

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michał Dębski ◽  
Piotr Micek ◽  
Felix Schröder ◽  
Stefan Felsner
Keyword(s):  
Upper Bound ◽  
Planar Graphs ◽  
Structure Theorem ◽  
Upper Bounds ◽  
Log P ◽  
Connected Subgraph ◽  
Bounded Degree ◽  
Graph Classes ◽  
Proof Techniques ◽  
Bounded Degree Graphs

A vertex coloring $\phi$ of a graph $G$ is $p$-centered if for every connected subgraph $H$ of $G$ either $\phi$ uses more than $p$ colors on $H$ or there is a color that appears exactly once on $H$. Centered colorings form one of the families of parameters that allow to capture notions of sparsity of graphs: A class of graphs has bounded expansion if and only if there is a function $f$ such that for every $p\geq1$, every graph in the class admits a $p$-centered coloring using at most $f(p)$ colors. In this paper, we give upper bounds for the maximum number of colors needed in a $p$-centered coloring of graphs from several widely studied graph classes. We show that: (1) planar graphs admit $p$-centered colorings with $O(p^3\log p)$ colors where the previous bound was $O(p^{19})$; (2) bounded degree graphs admit $p$-centered colorings with $O(p)$ colors while it was conjectured that they may require exponential number of colors. All these upper bounds imply polynomial algorithms for computing the colorings. Prior to this work there were no non-trivial lower bounds known. We show that: (4) there are graphs of treewidth $t$ that require $\binom{p+t}{t}$ colors in any $p$-centered coloring. This bound matches the upper bound; (5) there are planar graphs that require $\Omega(p^2\log p)$ colors in any $p$-centered coloring. We also give asymptotically tight bounds for outerplanar graphs and planar graphs of treewidth $3$. We prove our results with various proof techniques. The upper bound for planar graphs involves an application of a recent structure theorem while the upper bound for bounded degree graphs comes from the entropy compression method. We lift the result for bounded degree graphs to graphs avoiding a fixed topological minor using the Grohe-Marx structure theorem.

scholarly journals On the Size-Ramsey Number of Cycles

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (06) ◽  
pp. 871-880
Author(s):  
R. Javadi ◽  
F. Khoeini ◽  
G. R. Omidi ◽  
A. Pokrovskiy
Keyword(s):  
Upper Bounds ◽  
Ramsey Number ◽  
Alternative Proof ◽  
Regularity Lemma ◽  
Ramsey Numbers ◽  
Szemeredi's Regularity Lemma ◽  
Number Of Cycles ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Edge Colouring ◽  
Monochromatic Copy

AbstractFor given graphs G1,…, Gk, the size-Ramsey number $\hat R({G_1}, \ldots ,{G_k})$ is the smallest integer m for which there exists a graph H on m edges such that in every k-edge colouring of H with colours 1,…,k, H contains a monochromatic copy of Gi of colour i for some 1 ≤ i ≤ k. We denote $\hat R({G_1}, \ldots ,{G_k})$ by ${\hat R_k}(G)$ when G1 = ⋯ = Gk = G.Haxell, Kohayakawa and Łuczak showed that the size-Ramsey number of a cycle Cn is linear in n, ${\hat R_k}({C_n}) \le {c_k}n$ for some constant ck. Their proof, however, is based on Szemerédi’s regularity lemma so no specific constant ck is known.In this paper, we give various upper bounds for the size-Ramsey numbers of cycles. We provide an alternative proof of ${\hat R_k}({C_n}) \le {c_k}n$ , avoiding use of the regularity lemma, where ck is exponential and doubly exponential in k, when n is even and odd, respectively. In particular, we show that for sufficiently large n we have ${\hat R_2}({C_n}) \le {10^5} \times cn$ , where c = 6.5 if n is even and c = 1989 otherwise.

scholarly journals Multicolour Bipartite Ramsey Number of Paths

10.37236/8458 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matija Bucic ◽  
Shoham Letzter ◽  
Benny Sudakov
Keyword(s):  
Bipartite Graph ◽  
Complete Bipartite Graph ◽  
Upper Bounds ◽  
Ramsey Number ◽  
Ramsey Numbers ◽  
Over 40 Years ◽  
Monochromatic Copy

The k$-colour bipartite Ramsey number of a bipartite graph $H$ is the least integer $N$ for which every $k$-edge-coloured complete bipartite graph $K_{N,N}$ contains a monochromatic copy of $H$. The study of bipartite Ramsey numbers was initiated over 40 years ago by Faudree and Schelp and, independently, by Gyárfás and Lehel, who determined the $2$-colour bipartite Ramsey number of paths. Recently the $3$-colour Ramsey number of paths and (even) cycles, was essentially determined as well. Improving the results of DeBiasio, Gyárfás, Krueger, Ruszinkó, and Sárközy, in this paper we determine asymptotically the $4$-colour bipartite Ramsey number of paths and cycles. We also provide new upper bounds on the $k$-colour bipartite Ramsey numbers of paths and cycles which are close to being tight.

scholarly journals On-line Ramsey numbers for paths and stars

2008 ◽  
Vol Vol. 10 no. 3 (Graph and Algorithms) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Grytczuk ◽  
H. A. Kierstead ◽  
P. Prałat
Keyword(s):  
Upper Bound ◽  
Ramsey Number ◽  
Ramsey Numbers ◽  
Minimum Number ◽  
International Audience ◽  
On Line ◽  
Monochromatic Copy

Graphs and Algorithms International audience We study on-line version of size-Ramsey numbers of graphs defined via a game played between Builder and Painter: in one round Builder joins two vertices by an edge and Painter paints it red or blue. The goal of Builder is to force Painter to create a monochromatic copy of a fixed graph H in as few rounds as possible. The minimum number of rounds (assuming both players play perfectly) is the on-line Ramsey number r(H) of the graph H. We determine exact values of r(H) for a few short paths and obtain a general upper bound r(Pn) ≤ 4n −7. We also study asymmetric version of this parameter when one of the target graphs is a star Sn with n edges. We prove that r(Sn, H) ≤ n*e(H) when H is any tree, cycle or clique

scholarly journals The size Ramsey number of short subdivisions of bounded degree graphs

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 304-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshiharu Kohayakawa ◽  
Troy Retter ◽  
Vojtěch Rödl
Keyword(s):  
Ramsey Number ◽  
Bounded Degree ◽  
Bounded Degree Graphs
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