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The cycle-complete Ramsey number r(C_ℓ, K_n) equals (ℓ-1)(n-1)+1 once the cycle length ℓ is at least a constant times log n / log log n.
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“We prove that, for some absolute constant $C\ge 1$, we have $r(C_{\ell},K_n) = (\ell-1)(n-1)+1$ provided $\ell \geq C\frac {\log n}{\log \log n}$.”
From Keevash et al. (2019), arXiv 1807.06376. Quote verified against the arXiv abstract on 12 Oct 2026.
Ramsey number r(C_ℓ, K_n):
The smallest number N such that every red/blue colouring of the edges of a complete graph on N vertices contains a red cycle of length ℓ or a blue complete graph on n vertices.
clique:
A set of vertices in which every pair is joined by an edge.
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The paper
Cycle-Complete Ramsey Numbers
Peter Keevash, Eoin Long and Jozef Skokan
International Mathematics Research Notices · published 2019 · arXiv 1807.06376
The paper proves a long-standing conjecture on cycle-complete Ramsey numbers for large cycle lengths, and shows the required size of the cycle is tight up to a constant.
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Why it matters
The Ramsey number r(C_ℓ, K_n) is the smallest size of complete graph where any red/blue colouring must contain a red cycle of length ℓ or a blue clique of n vertices. The claim says that once cycles are long enough compared with n, this number takes the simple exact form (ℓ-1)(n-1)+1. This is the value conjectured by Erdős, Faudree, Rousseau and Schelp in 1978, so the result settles their conjecture for large ℓ. The paper also shows the threshold on ℓ cannot be improved beyond the constant C.
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What the authors did
This is a mathematical proof in extremal graph theory. The authors study red/blue edge-colourings of complete graphs and bound the Ramsey number for a cycle against a clique, giving both an upper and a lower bound.
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What they found
For some absolute constant C, r(C_ℓ, K_n) = (ℓ-1)(n-1)+1 whenever ℓ is at least C log n / log log n.
For any ε>0 and large n, r(C_ℓ, K_n) is much larger than (ℓ-1)(n-1)+1 for all 3 ≤ ℓ ≤ (1-ε) log n / log log n, so the threshold is tight up to the constant.
The result proves the Erdős–Faudree–Rousseau–Schelp conjecture for large ℓ, as well as a stronger form due to Nikiforov, and answers two further questions up to multiplicative constants.
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"We prove that, for some absolute constant $C\ge 1$, we have $r(C_{\ell},K_n) = (\ell-1)(n-1)+1$ provided $\ell \geq C\frac {\log n}{\log \log n}$."
(Keevash et al., International Mathematics Research Notices, 2019)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): The cycle-complete Ramsey number r(C_ℓ, K_n) equals (ℓ-1)(n-1)+1 once the cycle length ℓ is at least a constant times log n / log log n.
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Refuted if for every integer C≥1 there exist integers ℓ,n with ℓ ≥ C·(log n)/(log log n) such that r(Cℓ,Kₙ)≠(ℓ−1)(n−1)+1.
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General, by construction: “The Ramsey number $r(C_{oldsymbol{ ext{ℓ}}},K_n)$ is the smallest natural number $N$ such that every red/blue edge‑colouring of a clique of order $N$ contains a red cycle of length $oldsymbol{ ext{ℓ}}$ or a blue clique of order $n$”.
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