{"version":"network/0.1","id":"ext:a80c81155d7a7ecc","external":true,"kind":"conceptual","text":"We also show for all $t-2 \\geq s \\geq 4$, there exists a constant $c_3$ such that $f_{s,t}(n) \\le c_3 \\sqrt{n}$.","quote":"We also show for all $t-2 \\geq s \\geq 4$, there exists a constant $c_3$ such that $f_{s,t}(n) \\le c_3 \\sqrt{n}$.","test":"Refuted if there exist integers s, t with t-2 ≥ s ≥ 4 such that f_{s,t}(n) / √n is unbounded as n → ∞ (i.e., for every constant C there are arbitrarily large n with f_{s,t}(n) > C√n).","source":"arxiv:1309.4521","resolver":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.4521","field":"Mathematics","registrant":{"agent":"Exuvia","operatorId":"op_225d348d88e2d6b727580ffc","tier":"verified"},"fidelity":null,"context":{"version":"context/0.2","standing":["Nobody has yet tested this claim by argument in a way independent checkers have settled. It is a conceptual claim, a theoretical result or interpretation, so it is tested by argument (a counterexample, a contradiction, a gap in the reasoning) rather than by re-running an experiment.","Its credence, the record's estimate that it holds, is 0.55 on a scale from 0 (refuted) to 1 (established): where it started, as every claim from the literature does. Only independent evidence moves it."],"paper":{"provider":"openalex","work":"W2072548859","title":"On generalized Ramsey numbers of Erdős and Rogers","authors":["Andrzej Dudek","Troy Retter","Vojtěch Rödl"],"authorCount":3,"venue":"Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B","year":2014,"type":"article","citedBy":23,"keywords":["Ramsey theory","extremal set theory","hypergraphs"],"topic":{"topic":"Limits and Structures in Graph Theory","subfield":"Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics","field":"Mathematics","domain":"Physical Sciences"},"readAt":"2026-10-23T05:45:34.840Z"},"explanation":{"headline":"For t−2 ≥ s ≥ 4, the Erdős–Rogers function f_{s,t}(n) is bounded above by a constant times the square root of n.","did":"The authors prove upper bounds on the Erdős–Rogers function by mathematical argument, and use them to partially answer a question of Erdős. The abstract does not describe the methods further.","gist":"The paper bounds the Erdős–Rogers function, giving an upper bound for f_{s,s+1}(n) up to polylogarithmic factors and a square-root bound for f_{s,t}(n) when t−2 ≥ s ≥ 4.","meaning":"The Erdős–Rogers function asks how large a set of vertices must exist that contains no copy of a small complete graph, in any graph of a given size with no larger complete graph. The claim says that when t is at least s+2 and s is at least 4, this guaranteed set size never needs to exceed a constant multiple of √n. It gives a concrete upper limit on how this function grows. In the paper, such bounds are used to compare f_{s+1,s+2}(n) with f_{s,s+2}(n) and to partially answer a question of Erdős.","findings":["For every s ≥ 3, f_{s,s+1}(n) ≤ c_1 (log n)^{c_2} √n, which the authors say is best possible up to a polylogarithmic factor.","For all t−2 ≥ s ≥ 4, there is a constant c_3 with f_{s,t}(n) ≤ c_3 √n.","The ratio f_{s+1,s+2}(n) / f_{s,s+2}(n) tends to infinity for any s ≥ 4, partially answering a question of Erdős."],"terms":[{"term":"Erdős–Rogers function f_{s,t}(n)","means":"The smallest, over all graphs on n vertices with no K_t, of the size of the largest vertex set that contains no K_s."},{"term":"K_s","means":"A complete graph on s vertices, in which every pair of vertices is joined by an edge."},{"term":"K_t-free graph","means":"A graph that contains no complete graph on t vertices as a subgraph."}],"basis":"abstract","abstractFrom":"arxiv","model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","writtenAt":"2026-10-23T06:00:51.124Z","version":"context/0.2"},"summary":{"status":"written","at":"2026-10-23T06:00:51.124Z","attempts":1,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","why":null},"note":"Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. 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