Diagonal Ramsey numbers for wheels

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Main Authors: Li, Maoxuan, Kashima, Masaki, Mao, Yaping
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author Li, Maoxuan
Kashima, Masaki
Mao, Yaping
author_facet Li, Maoxuan
Kashima, Masaki
Mao, Yaping
contents The Ramsey number $\mathrm{R}(G_1,G_2)$ is the smallest integer $N$ such that any red-blue coloring of the edges of the complete graph $K_N$ contains either a red copy of $G_1$ or a blue copy of $G_2$. In 2022, the third author and others gave lower and upper bounds of the Ramsey number $\mathrm{R}(W_n,W_n)$, where $W_n$ is the wheel graph with $n$ vertices. In this paper, we improve their bounds by showing that $3n-2\leq \mathrm{R}(W_n,W_n)\leq 6n-6$ for even $n\geq 8$ and $2n\leq \mathrm{R}(W_n,W_n)\leq \frac{9n-7}{2}$ for odd $n\geq 7$. Furthermore, we give recursive bounds for the $k$-colored Ramsey number for $W_n$.
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spellingShingle Diagonal Ramsey numbers for wheels
Li, Maoxuan
Kashima, Masaki
Mao, Yaping
Combinatorics
The Ramsey number $\mathrm{R}(G_1,G_2)$ is the smallest integer $N$ such that any red-blue coloring of the edges of the complete graph $K_N$ contains either a red copy of $G_1$ or a blue copy of $G_2$. In 2022, the third author and others gave lower and upper bounds of the Ramsey number $\mathrm{R}(W_n,W_n)$, where $W_n$ is the wheel graph with $n$ vertices. In this paper, we improve their bounds by showing that $3n-2\leq \mathrm{R}(W_n,W_n)\leq 6n-6$ for even $n\geq 8$ and $2n\leq \mathrm{R}(W_n,W_n)\leq \frac{9n-7}{2}$ for odd $n\geq 7$. Furthermore, we give recursive bounds for the $k$-colored Ramsey number for $W_n$.
title Diagonal Ramsey numbers for wheels
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22116