Ramsey games near the critical threshold

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العنوان: Ramsey games near the critical threshold
المؤلفون: Conlon, David, Das, Shagnik, Lee, Joonkyung, Mészáros, Tamás
سنة النشر: 2019
المجموعة: Mathematics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Mathematics - Combinatorics
الوصف: A well-known result of R\"odl and Ruci\'nski states that for any graph $H$ there exists a constant $C$ such that if $p \geq C n^{- 1/m_2(H)}$, then the random graph $G_{n,p}$ is a.a.s. $H$-Ramsey, that is, any $2$-colouring of its edges contains a monochromatic copy of $H$. Aside from a few simple exceptions, the corresponding $0$-statement also holds, that is, there exists $c>0$ such that whenever $p\leq cn^{-1/m_2(H)}$ the random graph $G_{n,p}$ is a.a.s. not $H$-Ramsey. We show that near this threshold, even when $G_{n,p}$ is not $H$-Ramsey, it is often extremely close to being $H$-Ramsey. More precisely, we prove that for any constant $c > 0$ and any strictly $2$-balanced graph $H$, if $p \geq c n^{-1/m_2(H)}$, then the random graph $G_{n,p}$ a.a.s. has the property that every $2$-edge-colouring without monochromatic copies of $H$ cannot be extended to an $H$-free colouring after $\omega(1)$ extra random edges are added. This generalises a result by Friedgut, Kohayakawa, R\"odl, Ruci\'nski and Tetali, who in 2002 proved the same statement for triangles, and addresses a question raised by those authors. We also extend a result of theirs on the three-colour case and show that these theorems need not hold when $H$ is not strictly $2$-balanced.
Comment: 18 pages, 6 figures; to appear in Random Structures & Algorithms
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02991
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1908.02991
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv