The Triangle-Free Process and the Ramsey Number R(3,k)

Download or read book The Triangle-Free Process and the Ramsey Number R(3,k) written by Gonzalo Fiz Pontiveros and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2020-04-03 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The areas of Ramsey theory and random graphs have been closely linked ever since Erdős's famous proof in 1947 that the “diagonal” Ramsey numbers R(k) grow exponentially in k. In the early 1990s, the triangle-free process was introduced as a model which might potentially provide good lower bounds for the “off-diagonal” Ramsey numbers R(3,k). In this model, edges of Kn are introduced one-by-one at random and added to the graph if they do not create a triangle; the resulting final (random) graph is denoted Gn,△. In 2009, Bohman succeeded in following this process for a positive fraction of its duration, and thus obtained a second proof of Kim's celebrated result that R(3,k)=Θ(k2/logk). In this paper the authors improve the results of both Bohman and Kim and follow the triangle-free process all the way to its asymptotic end.