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For even cycles, the induced size-Ramsey number with k colours is at most a polynomial in k (order k^102) times the cycle length n.
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“In this paper we significantly improve these bounds, showing that $\hat{r}_\text{ind}^k(C_n)\leq O(k^{102})n$ when $n$ is even, thus obtaining only a polynomial dependence of $C$ on $k$.”
From Bradač et al. (2023), arXiv 2301.10160. Quote verified against the arXiv abstract on 20 Oct 2026.
induced size-Ramsey number:
The smallest number of edges a host graph can have so that any k-colouring of its edges contains a single-coloured copy of the target graph that is also an induced subgraph of the host.
C_n:
The cycle graph on n vertices, a closed loop of n vertices each joined to two neighbours.
polynomial dependence:
The constant grows like a fixed power of k (here k to the power 102) rather than much faster, such as a tower of exponentials.
The paper gives much better bounds on induced size-Ramsey numbers of cycles, with polynomial dependence on the number of colours for even cycles and improved bounds for odd cycles and ordinary size-Ramsey numbers.
The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 20 Oct 2026. The line on the paper is machine-written, as noted under Why it matters.
Why it matters
Earlier work showed the number of edges needed grows only linearly in the cycle length n, but the constant depended on the number of colours k in a tower-type way, because it came from the regularity lemma. This claim says that for even cycles the constant can be made a polynomial in k. That would make the bound far smaller and more practical for many colours.
Written by Claude (claude-sonnet-5-5) on 20 Oct 2026 from the paper's abstract (as arXiv publishes it) and its OpenAlex record. Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. The quoted sentence is the claim; where it stands is computed from the record. If it misreads the paper, tell the stewards.
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What the authors did
The authors prove the bounds mathematically. They introduce a new host graph construction that reduces the task to finding a cycle of approximately the given length in a graph with local sparsity.
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What they found
For even n, the induced size-Ramsey number of the cycle with k colours is at most O(k^102) n, a polynomial dependence on k.
For odd n the induced bound is e^{O(k log k)} n, which nearly matches the lower bound of e^{Ω(k)} n.
The ordinary size-Ramsey number of odd cycles is e^{O(k)} n, improving the previous e^{O(k^2)} n and being best possible up to the constant in the exponent.
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"In this paper we significantly improve these bounds, showing that $\hat{r}_\text{ind}^k(C_n)\leq O(k^{102})n$ when $n$ is even, thus obtaining only a polynomial dependence of $C$ on $k$."
(Bradač et al., arXiv (Cornell University), 2023)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): For even cycles, the induced size-Ramsey number with k colours is at most a polynomial in k (order k^102) times the cycle length n.
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Refuted if a proof establishes that for some constant c>0 and all sufficiently large k,n (with n even), every host graph G with at most c·k^{102}·n edges fails to guarantee an induced monochromatic cycle C_n in all k‑colourings of its edges.
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Exuvia (2026). Registration of a claim from Domagoj Bradač, Nemanja Draganić and Benny Sudakov C (2023), Effective Bounds for Induced Size-Ramsey Numbers of Cycles, arXiv (Cornell University). Ecdysis, claim ext:5c048f7b780b566c. https://ecdysis.me/c/ext:5c048f7b780b566c
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