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Finite graph Ramsey theorem: $(\binom{s + t - 2}{s - 1}) \to (s, t)^{2}$ for all positive $s, t$

Statement

For all positive natural numbers $s, t$ ,

$(\binom{s + t - 2}{s - 1}) \to (s, t)^{2} .$

The arrow notation is Finite colourings of $k$ -element subsets, monochromatic sets, and the arrow notations $N \to (s, t)^{2}$ and $N \to (r)_{c}^{k}$ , binomial coefficients are those of The set $[A]^{k}$ of $k$ -element subsets and the binomial coefficient $(\binom{n}{k}) : = ∣ [n]^{k} ∣$ , and the induction is over the natural order of Order on the natural numbers using The principle of mathematical induction.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: Positive natural numbers $s, t$ .

[L1]

If $m \to (s - 1, t)^{2}$ and $n \to (s, t - 1)^{2}$ , then $m + n \to (s, t)^{2}$ for $s, t \geq 2$ (If $m \to (s - 1, t)^{2}$ and $n \to (s, t - 1)^{2}$ , then $m + n \to (s, t)^{2}$ for $s, t \geq 2$ ).

[L2]

Pascal's rule. $(\binom{n + 1}{k + 1}) = (\binom{n}{k}) + (\binom{n}{k + 1})$ (Pascal's rule $(\binom{n + 1}{k + 1}) = (\binom{n}{k}) + (\binom{n}{k + 1})$ , and the hockey-stick identity $\sum_{i \leq n} (\binom{i}{k}) = (\binom{n + 1}{k + 1})$ ).

Proof

technique · induction

1.1base

If $s = 1$ or $t = 1$ , every nonempty vertex set contains the required one-vertex set in the corresponding colour convention, and the displayed binomial coefficient is $1$ .

1.2ih

Assume $s, t \geq 2$ and that the formula holds whenever the sum of the two positive parameters is smaller than $s + t$ . Then $(\binom{s + t - 3}{s - 2}) \to (s - 1, t)^{2}$ and $(\binom{s + t - 3}{s - 1}) \to (s, t - 1)^{2}$ by the induction hypothesis.

2.1step 1.2L1L2

Apply [L1] to the two witnesses in step 1.2 and use [L2] to identify their sum as $(\binom{s + t - 2}{s - 1})$ . This gives the displayed arrow for $(s, t)$ .

3.1step 1.1step 2.1discharge-induction∎

The base faces and the induction step cover all positive $s, t$ , so the explicit binomial witness works universally.

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Sources

J. Fox et al., Graph Ramsey Theory, Section 2.1 (standard reference, not scraped)
R. Diestel, Graph Theory, 6th ed., Theorem 9.1.1 (standard reference, not scraped)

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