An exponential-type upper bound for Folkman numbers
An exponential-type upper bound for Folkman numbers
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DOI:
10.1007/s00493-015-3298-1
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发表时间:
2016-03
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1.1
通讯作者:
V. Rödl;A. Rucinski;M. Schacht
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作者:
V. Rödl;A. Rucinski;M. Schacht
For given integerskandr, the Folkman numberf(k;r) is the smallest number of vertices in a graphGwhich contains no clique onk+1 vertices, yet for every partition of its edges intorparts, some part contains a clique of orderk. The existence (finiteness) of Folkman numbers was established by Folkman (1970) forr=2 and by Nešetřil and Rödl (1976) for arbitraryr, but these proofs led to very weak upper bounds onf(k;r).Recently, Conlon and Gowers and independently the authors obtained a doubly exponential bound onf(k;2). Here, we establish a further improvement by showing an upper bound onf(k;r) which is exponential in a polynomial ofkandr. This is comparable to the known lower bound 2Ω(rk). Our proof relies on a recent result of Saxton and Thomason (or, alternatively, on a recent result of Balogh, Morris, and Samotij) from which we deduce a quantitative version of Ramsey’s theorem in random graphs.