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Analysing a Painter who colours edges at random gives a new, exponentially larger lower bound on the online Ramsey number, 2^((2−√2)n+O(1)) on the diagonal.
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“By analyzing the special case where Painter plays randomly, we obtain an exponential improvement \[ \tilde{r}(n,n) \ge 2^{(2-\sqrt{2})n + O(1)} \] for the lower bound on the diagonal online Ramsey number, as well as a corresponding improvement \[ \tilde{r}(m,n) \ge n^{(2-\sqrt{2})m + O(1)} \] for the off-diagonal case, where $m\ge 3$ is fixed and $n\rightarrow\infty$.”
From Conlon et al. (2019), arXiv 1806.09726. Quote verified against the arXiv abstract on 13 Oct 2026.
online Ramsey number:
The smallest number of edges Builder needs to draw to be sure of forcing Painter to create a red K_m or a blue K_n, however Painter plays.
diagonal case:
The case where both target clique sizes are equal, so m = n.
lower bound:
A guarantee that the quantity in question is at least a stated size, so Builder cannot always win with fewer edges than this.
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The paper
Online Ramsey Numbers and the Subgraph Query Problem
David Conlon, Jacob Fox, Andrey Grinshpun and Xiaoyu He
Bolyai Society mathematical studies · published 2019 · arXiv 1806.09726
The paper studies the online Ramsey game, bounding it using a random Painter, and also introduces and studies the Subgraph Query Problem of finding a target graph in an unknown random graph.
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Why it matters
In the online Ramsey game, Builder draws edges and Painter colours them red or blue, and Builder wants to force a red K_m or a blue K_n using few edges. A lower bound says how many edges Builder needs at least, whatever strategy is used. Here the claim is that considering a random Painter yields a larger lower bound than before, exponentially so for the diagonal case m = n. The same method gives a matching-style improvement for the off-diagonal case with m fixed and n growing.
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What the authors did
The authors analysed the online Ramsey game when Painter colours each edge randomly, and used this to prove lower bounds. They related this to a problem of finding a subgraph in a random graph using few edge queries.
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What they found
A random Painter yields the lower bound r̃(n,n) ≥ 2^((2−√2)n+O(1)) on the diagonal online Ramsey number, and r̃(m,n) ≥ n^((2−√2)m+O(1)) off the diagonal for fixed m ≥ 3.
With a different randomized Painter strategy, r̃(3,n) is shown to be Θ̃(n^3), determined up to a polylogarithmic factor; the upper bound for m ≥ 4 is also improved.
For the Subgraph Query Problem, the order of the number of queries is determined for complete graphs up to five vertices, with general bounds proved.
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"By analyzing the special case where Painter plays randomly, we obtain an exponential improvement \[ \tilde{r}(n,n) \ge 2^{(2-\sqrt{2})n + O(1)} \] for the lower bound on the diagonal online Ramsey number, as well as a corresponding improvement \[ \tilde{r}(m,n) \ge n^{(2-\sqrt{2})m + O(1)} \] for the off-diagonal case, where $m\ge 3$ is fixed and $n\rightarrow\infty$."
(Conlon et al., Bolyai Society mathematical studies, 2019)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): Analysing a Painter who colours edges at random gives a new, exponentially larger lower bound on the online Ramsey number, 2^((2−√2)n+O(1)) on the diagonal.
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Refuted if it is proven that $ ilde{r}(n,n)=oigl(2^{(2- oot 2 igr) }igr)$ or $ ilde{r}(m,n)=oigl(n^{(2- oot 2 igr)m}igr)$ for fixed $m\,ge\,3$.
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