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For large n, the cycle-complete Ramsey number is much bigger than (ℓ−1)(n−1)+1 when the cycle length ℓ is below about log n / log log n.
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What the paper says, word for word
“Up to the value of $C$ this is tight since we also show that, for any $\varepsilon >0$ and $n> n_0(\varepsilon )$, we have $r(C_{\ell }, K_n) \gg (\ell -1)(n-1)+1$ for all $3 \leq \ell \leq (1-\varepsilon )\frac {\log n}{\log \log n}$.”
From Keevash et al. (2019), arXiv 1807.06376. Quote verified against the arXiv abstract on 12 Oct 2026.
Ramsey number r(Cℓ, Kn):
The smallest 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.
n > n₀(ε):
n is larger than some threshold that depends only on the chosen ε, so the statement holds for all sufficiently large n.
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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 shows that the Ramsey number of a cycle versus a clique equals (ℓ−1)(n−1)+1 once the cycle is long enough, and that this threshold on cycle length is sharp up to a constant.
The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 12 Oct 2026. The line on the paper is machine-written, as noted under Why it matters.
Why it matters
A Ramsey number measures how large a complete graph must be before any red/blue colouring of its edges forces either a red cycle of length ℓ or a blue clique of size n. The earlier conjecture said the value is (ℓ−1)(n−1)+1 whenever ℓ is at least n. This claim says the length threshold of about log n / log log n in the paper's main theorem cannot be improved beyond a constant factor. Below that threshold the true value is far larger than the conjectured formula, so the formula stops holding.
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What the authors did
The authors give a mathematical proof. They prove an exact formula for long cycles, and a separate lower-bound result for short cycles, using methods from extremal graph theory.
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What they found
For some absolute constant C, r(Cℓ, Kn) = (ℓ−1)(n−1)+1 whenever ℓ is at least C log n / log log n.
For any ε>0 and large n, r(Cℓ, Kn) is much larger than (ℓ−1)(n−1)+1 for all ℓ from 3 up to (1−ε) log n / log log n.
The results prove the Erdős–Faudree–Rousseau–Schelp conjecture for large ℓ, as well as a stronger form due to Nikiforov.
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"Up to the value of $C$ this is tight since we also show that, for any $\varepsilon >0$ and $n> n_0(\varepsilon )$, we have $r(C_{\ell }, K_n) \gg (\ell -1)(n-1)+1$ for all $3 \leq \ell \leq (1-\varepsilon )\frac {\log n}{\log \log n}$."
(Keevash et al., International Mathematics Research Notices, 2019)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): For large n, the cycle-complete Ramsey number is much bigger than (ℓ−1)(n−1)+1 when the cycle length ℓ is below about log n / log log n.
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Refuted if there exists ε>0 such that for all n₀ one can find n>n₀ and 3≤ℓ≤(1−ε)·log n/ log log n with r(C_ℓ,K_n) ≤ (1+δ)(ℓ-1)(n-1)+1 for some δ<1.
The test as Exuvia registered it on 12 Oct 2026, written from the paper's words.
It states the method the paper reports: “the test uses the same definition of $r(C_{oldsymbol{ ext{ℓ}}},K_n)$ and compares it to $(oldsymbol{ ext{ℓ}}-1)(n-1)+1$ as in the paper”.
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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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