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The Ramsey number for a 4-vertex complete 3-uniform hypergraph versus a star grows faster than polynomial yet slower than exponential, between two stated bounds.
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What the paper says, word for word
“Whereas many hypergraph Ramsey numbers grow either at most polynomially or at least exponentially, we show that the off-diagonal Ramsey number $r(K_{4}^{(3)},S_n^{(3)})$ exhibits an unusual intermediate growth rate, namely, \[ 2^{c \log^2 n} \le r(K_{4}^{(3)},S_n^{(3)}) \le 2^{c' n^{2/3}\log n} \] for some positive constants $c$ and $c'$.”
From Conlon et al. (2023), arXiv 2210.03545. Quote verified against the arXiv abstract on 18 Oct 2026.
hypergraph Ramsey number:
The smallest number of vertices for which every two-colouring of the hyperedges must contain one of two specified monochromatic substructures, one in each colour.
star S_n^(3):
A 3-uniform hypergraph on n+1 vertices made up of all the triples that contain one given vertex.
off-diagonal:
Describes a Ramsey number in which the two forbidden structures differ, here a complete hypergraph and a star, rather than being the same.
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The paper
Hypergraph Ramsey numbers of cliques versus stars
David Conlon, Jacob Fox, Xiaoyu He, Dhruv Mubayi, Andrew Suk and Jacques Verstraëte
Random Structures and Algorithms · published 2023 · arXiv 2210.03545
The paper bounds the off-diagonal hypergraph Ramsey number of a complete 3-uniform hypergraph on four vertices against a star, and introduces a new Ramsey problem on grid graphs.
The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 18 Oct 2026. The line on the paper is machine-written, as noted under Why it matters.
Why it matters
A Ramsey number is the smallest size at which a certain pattern is guaranteed to appear in any two-colouring. Most hypergraph Ramsey numbers known grow either polynomially or exponentially, so a growth rate between the two is unusual. The claim says this particular case falls in that gap, with the lower and upper bounds given in the sentence. The grid-graph question raised along the way may be of interest in its own right.
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The story so far
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What the authors did
The authors prove mathematical upper and lower bounds on the Ramsey number r(K_4^(3), S_n^(3)). Their proof uses a new Ramsey problem about 2-edge-colourings of the Cartesian product of two complete graphs.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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What they found
The Ramsey number r(K_4^(3), S_n^(3)) is at least 2^(c log^2 n) for some positive constant c.
It is at most 2^(c' n^(2/3) log n) for some positive constant c'.
The proof leads to a new Ramsey problem on grid graphs: the least N such that any 2-edge-colouring of K_N □ K_N contains a red rectangle or a blue K_n.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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"Whereas many hypergraph Ramsey numbers grow either at most polynomially or at least exponentially, we show that the off-diagonal Ramsey number $r(K_{4}^{(3)},S_n^{(3)})$ exhibits an unusual intermediate growth rate, namely, \[ 2^{c \log^2 n} \le r(K_{4}^{(3)},S_n^{(3)}) \le 2^{c' n^{2/3}\log n} \] for some positive constants $c$ and $c'$."
(Conlon et al., Random Structures and Algorithms, 2023)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): The Ramsey number for a 4-vertex complete 3-uniform hypergraph versus a star grows faster than polynomial yet slower than exponential, between two stated bounds.
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What would prove it wrong
Refuted if it can be shown that no positive constants c and c' exist such that 2^{c <log^2 n>} <le r(K_{4}^{(3)},S_n^{(3)}) <le 2^{c' n^{2/3}<log n>} holds for all sufficiently large n.
The test as Exuvia registered it on 18 Oct 2026, written from the paper's words.
It states the method the paper reports: “The test would use the same definition of the Ramsey number and the same bounds on its growth as stated in the paper, without altering the underlying combinatorial model or parameters”.
Covers
General, by construction: “the off‑diagonal Ramsey number r(K_{4}^{(3)},S_n^{(3))), defined as the least integer N such that every 2–edge–colouring of the complete 3‑uniform hypergraph on N vertices contains either a red copy of the 3‑uniform clique K_{4}^{(3)} or a blue copy of the 3‑uniform star S_n^{(3)}”.
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Exuvia (2026). Registration of a claim from David Conlon, Jacob Fox, Xiaoyu He and 3 others (2023), Hypergraph Ramsey numbers of cliques versus stars, Random Structures and Algorithms. Ecdysis, claim ext:63662d8a47d27642. https://ecdysis.me/c/ext:63662d8a47d27642
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