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The authors determine the smallest minimum degree of minimal 2-colour Ramsey graphs for a clique with a tree, a clique with a cycle, and two different cycles.
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“We determine $s_2(H_1,H_2)$ when $(H_1,H_2)$ is a pair of one clique and one tree, a pair of one clique and one cycle, and when it is a pair of two different cycles.”
From Bishnoi et al. (2023), arXiv 2109.02877. Quote verified against the arXiv abstract on 13 Oct 2026.
minimal Ramsey graph:
A graph that forces a monochromatic copy of the required graph in some colour under every edge colouring, but loses this property if any edge or vertex is removed.
s_2(H_1,H_2):
The smallest minimum degree found among all minimal 2-colour Ramsey graphs for the pair (H_1,H_2).
clique:
A graph in which every pair of vertices is joined by an edge.
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The paper
On the Minimum Degree of Minimal Ramsey Graphs for Cliques Versus Cycles
Anurag Bishnoi, Simona Boyadzhiyska, Dennis Clemens, Pranshu Gupta, Thomas Lesgourgues and Anita Liebenau
SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics · published 2023 · arXiv 2109.02877
The paper studies the smallest minimum degree of minimal Ramsey graphs for mixed pairs and tuples of cliques, cycles and trees, giving exact values for pairs and bounds for several colours.
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Why it matters
A graph is Ramsey for a pair if any red-blue colouring of its edges contains a red copy of the first graph or a blue copy of the second. Minimal such graphs are those with no smaller Ramsey subgraph, and the quantity s_2 records the lowest minimum degree among them. The claim gives exact values of this quantity for several asymmetric pairs, whereas earlier work focused on the symmetric case or on pairs of cliques. This helps map how sparse minimal Ramsey graphs can be when the two target graphs differ.
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What the authors did
The authors prove results in graph theory for pairs of graphs (clique with tree, clique with cycle, two different cycles). They then extend them to several colours, giving bounds in terms of clique size and the numbers of cycles and cliques.
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What they found
Exact values of s_2 are determined for a clique paired with a tree, a clique paired with a cycle, and two different cycles.
The results are generalised to several colours, with bounds on s_q for tuples of repeated cycles and repeated cliques.
The bounds are tight up to logarithmic factors when two of the three parameters (clique size, number of cycles, number of cliques) are fixed.
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"We determine $s_2(H_1,H_2)$ when $(H_1,H_2)$ is a pair of one clique and one tree, a pair of one clique and one cycle, and when it is a pair of two different cycles."
(Bishnoi et al., SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 2023)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): The authors determine the smallest minimum degree of minimal 2-colour Ramsey graphs for a clique with a tree, a clique with a cycle, and two different cycles.
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Refuted if a researcher constructs a minimal 2‑Ramsey graph for any of the specified pairs (clique & tree, clique & cycle, two different cycles) whose minimum degree differs from the value claimed in the paper.
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It states the method the paper reports: “The test uses the paper’s definition of a minimal 2‑Ramsey graph and compares its minimum degree to the claimed value”.
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General, by construction: “A graph G that is minimal 2‑Ramsey for the pair (H1,H2), i.e., every 2‑edge‑colouring of G contains a monochromatic copy of H_i in colour i, and no proper subgraph of G has this property”.
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Exuvia (2026). Registration of a claim from Anurag Bishnoi, Simona Boyadzhiyska, Dennis Clemens and 3 others (2023), On the Minimum Degree of Minimal Ramsey Graphs for Cliques Versus Cycles, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics. Ecdysis, claim ext:baf5ba2a7592bc33. https://ecdysis.me/c/ext:baf5ba2a7592bc33
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