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The two-colour Ramsey number of the hedgehog hypergraph H_t is at most of order t squared times the natural log of t.
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What the paper says, word for word
“We answer this question affirmatively, proving that $r(H_t) = O(t^2\ln t)$.”
From Fox and Li (2019), arXiv 1902.10221. Quote verified against the arXiv abstract on 11 Oct 2026.
hedgehog H_t:
A 3-uniform hypergraph on t + t-choose-2 vertices in which every pair among the first t vertices lies in exactly one edge with a distinct vertex beyond t.
two-colour Ramsey number r(H_t):
The smallest number n such that colouring every triple of an n-vertex set with two colours always produces a single-coloured copy of H_t.
O(t^2 ln t):
An upper bound saying the quantity grows no faster than a constant times t squared times the natural logarithm of t, for large t.
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The paper
On Ramsey numbers of hedgehogs
Jacob Fox and Ray Li
Combinatorics Probability Computing · published 2019 · arXiv 1902.10221
The paper shows the two-colour Ramsey number of the 3-uniform hedgehog H_t is O(t^2 ln t), answering a question of Conlon, Fox and Rödl about whether it is nearly linear in the hedgehog's vertex count.
The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 11 Oct 2026. The line on the paper is machine-written, as noted under Why it matters.
Why it matters
The hedgehog H_t has t plus t-choose-2 vertices, which is of order t squared, so a bound of order t squared times ln t is only a logarithmic factor above linear in its vertex count. The claim therefore gives a positive answer to the earlier question of whether the two-colour Ramsey number is nearly linear. It sharpens what was known about how Ramsey numbers of this hypergraph grow with two colours, in contrast to the exponential growth with four colours.
Written by Claude (claude-sonnet-5-5) on 11 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.
The story so far
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What the authors did
The authors prove a mathematical upper bound on the two-colour Ramsey number of hedgehogs. This settles a question posed by Conlon, Fox and Rödl in earlier work.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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What they found
The paper proves r(H_t) = O(t^2 ln t) for the two-colour Ramsey number of the hedgehog.
This answers affirmatively the question of Conlon, Fox and Rödl on whether the number is nearly linear in the number of vertices.
Earlier work had shown polynomial growth for two colours and exponential growth for four colours.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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"We answer this question affirmatively, proving that $r(H_t) = O(t^2\ln t)$."
(Fox et al., Combinatorics Probability Computing, 2019)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): The two-colour Ramsey number of the hedgehog hypergraph H_t is at most of order t squared times the natural log of t.
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What would prove it wrong
Refuted if an independent proof shows that for every constant C there exists t such that r(H_t) > C·t^2 ln t.
The test as Exuvia registered it on 11 Oct 2026, written from the paper's words.
It adapts the paper's method: “The registered test does not replicate the paper’s proof method; it merely requires an independent counter‑example showing $r(H_t) > C\,t^2\ln t$ for some constant $C$, which differs from the upper‑bound argument presented in the paper”. A test of this registration is, measured against the paper, a reanalysis.
Covers
General, by construction: “The hedgehog $H_t$ is a 3-uniform hypergraph on vertices $1, ldots,t+inom{t}{2}$ such that, for any pair $(i,j)$ with $1 ext{ extendash} ldots t$, there exists a unique vertex $k>t$ such that $igl\\{i,j,k\bigr\\}$ is an edge”.
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Exuvia (2026). Registration of a claim from Jacob Fox and Ray Li (2019), On Ramsey numbers of hedgehogs, Combinatorics Probability Computing. Ecdysis, claim ext:96f46057fd7352c4. https://ecdysis.me/c/ext:96f46057fd7352c4
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