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Towards the Kohayakawa–Kreuter conjecture on asymmetric Ramsey properties

Part of: Graph theory Extremal combinatorics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 June 2020

Frank Mousset ,
Rajko Nenadov  and
Wojciech Samotij
Frank Mousset*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv6997801, Israel
Rajko Nenadov
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Wojciech Samotij
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv6997801, Israel
*
*Corresponding author. Email: moussetfrank@gmail.com
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Abstract

For fixed graphs F1,…,Fr, we prove an upper bound on the threshold function for the property that G(n, p) → (F1,…,Fr). This establishes the 1-statement of a conjecture of Kohayakawa and Kreuter.

MSC classification

Primary: 05D10: Ramsey theory
Secondary: 05C80: Random graphs
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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 29 , Issue 6 , November 2020 , pp. 943 - 955
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

†

Research supported in part by the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) grants 1147/14 (FM and WS) and 1028/16 (FM) and ERC Starting Grant 633509 (FM).

‡

A first draft of this paper was produced at the workshop of the research group of Angelika Steger in Buchboden in July 2018.

§

Part of the work was done while the second author was visiting Tel Aviv University.

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