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Combined with earlier upper bounds, the new lower bound implies that r_4(6,n) grows double exponentially in a power of n.
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“Using previously known upper bounds, our result implies that the growth rate of $r_4(6,n)$ is double exponential in a power of $n$.”
From Mubayi and Suk (2017), arXiv 1702.05509. Quote verified against the arXiv abstract on 16 Oct 2026.
Ramsey number r_4(6,n):
The smallest N such that any red-blue colouring of all 4-element subsets of {1,...,N} contains 6 numbers whose 4-element subsets are all red, or n numbers whose 4-element subsets are all blue.
upper bounds:
Results showing that a quantity can be no larger than a stated size, here limiting how big the Ramsey number can be.
double exponential in a power of n:
Growth of the form 2 raised to 2 raised to some power of n, which is far faster than ordinary exponential growth.
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The paper
New lower bounds for hypergraph Ramsey numbers
Dhruv Mubayi and Andrew Suk
Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society · published 2017 · arXiv 1702.05509
The paper proves new lower bounds for 4-uniform hypergraph Ramsey numbers r_4(5,n) and r_4(6,n), and extends them to r_k(k+1,n) and r_k(k+2,n), almost settling the tower growth rate of off-diagonal hypergraph Ramsey numbers.
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Why it matters
A Ramsey number measures how large a collection must be before some orderly structure is guaranteed to appear, however it is coloured. Here, a lower bound on r_4(6,n) that is double exponential, together with known upper bounds of the same type, pins down how fast this number grows. This is part of a question Erdős and Hajnal raised in 1972 about the tower growth rate of off-diagonal hypergraph Ramsey numbers, which the paper says is now almost answered.
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What the authors did
The authors prove, by mathematical argument, new lower bounds for 4-uniform hypergraph Ramsey numbers. They then combine the bound for r_4(6,n) with previously known upper bounds.
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What they found
The paper proves r_4(5,n) > 2^(n^(c log n)) and r_4(6,n) > 2^(2^(c n^(1/5))), where c is an absolute positive constant.
These bounds substantially improve the previous best bounds of 2^(n^(c log log n)) and 2^(n^(c log n)) respectively.
Similar tower-type bounds follow for r_k(k+1,n) and r_k(k+2,n); the only case left open is showing r_4(5,n) is double exponential in a power of n.
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"Using previously known upper bounds, our result implies that the growth rate of $r_4(6,n)$ is double exponential in a power of $n$."
(Mubayi et al., Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 2017)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): Combined with earlier upper bounds, the new lower bound implies that r_4(6,n) grows double exponentially in a power of n.
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