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3 claims from 2 papers

1. Physics and Astronomy › Origins and Evolution of Life

   Autocatalytic sets of proteins

   Kauffman · Journal of Theoretical Biology · 1986

   Kauffman argues that self-sustaining (autocatalytic) sets of peptides may arise almost inevitably once a mix of polypeptides is complex enough, treating it as a percolation problem on random reaction graphs.

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   1. Supported · 71%As the maximum peptide length grows, reactions outnumber polypeptides ever faster, so self-sustaining catalytic subsets arise for any fixed catalysis probability.“Because, as M increases, the ratio of reactions among the possible polypeptides to polypeptides rises rapidly, the existence of such autocatalytic subsets is assured for any fixed probability of catalysis.”

2. Mathematics › Limits and Structures in Graph Theory

   Ordered Ramsey numbers of graphs with $m$ edges

   Bradač, Morawski, Sudakov and Wigderson · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“We prove that $r_<(G) \leq e^{10^9 \sqrt{m} (\log \log m)^{3/2}}$ for any such $G$, which is tight up to the $(\log \log m)^{3/2}$ factor in the exponent.”
   2. Unchecked“As a corollary, we obtain the corresponding bound for the oriented Ramsey number of a directed graph with $m$ edges.”