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Star Versus Two Stripes Ramsey Numbers and a Conjecture of Schelp

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2012

ANDRÁS GYÁRFÁS and
GÁBOR N. SÁRKÖZY
ANDRÁS GYÁRFÁS
Affiliation:
Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, PO Box 63, Budapest, H-1518Hungary (e-mail: gyarfas2@gmail.com)
GÁBOR N. SÁRKÖZY
Affiliation:
Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, PO Box 63, Budapest, H-1518Hungary (e-mail: gyarfas2@gmail.com)Computer Science Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609, USA (e-mail: gsarkozy@cs.wpi.edu)
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R. H. Schelp conjectured that if G is a graph with |V(G)| = R(Pn, Pn) such that δ(G) > $$\frac{3|V(G)|}{ 4}$, then in every 2-colouring of the edges of G there is a monochromatic Pn. In other words, the Ramsey number of a path does not change if the graph to be coloured is not complete but has large minimum degree.

Here we prove Ramsey-type results that imply the conjecture in a weakened form, first replacing the path by a matching, showing that the star-matching–matching Ramsey number satisfying R(Sn, nK2, nK2) = 3n − 1. This extends R(nK2, nK2) = 3n − 1, an old result of Cockayne and Lorimer. Then we extend this further from matchings to connected matchings, and outline how this implies Schelp's conjecture in an asymptotic sense through a standard application of the Regularity Lemma.

It is sad that we are unable to hear Dick Schelp's reaction to our work generated by his conjecture.

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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 21 , Issue 1-2: Honouring the Memory of Richard H. Schelp , March 2012, pp. 179 - 186
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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