On the Ramsey number of the triangle and the cube


Abstract in English

The Ramsey number r(K_3,Q_n) is the smallest integer N such that every red-blue colouring of the edges of the complete graph K_N contains either a red n-dimensional hypercube, or a blue triangle. Almost thirty years ago, Burr and ErdH{o}s conjectured that r(K_3,Q_n) = 2^{n+1} - 1 for every n in N, but the first non-trivial upper bound was obtained only recently, by Conlon, Fox, Lee and Sudakov, who proved that r(K_3,Q_n) le 7000 cdot 2^n. Here we show that r(K_3,Q_n) = (1 + o(1)) 2^{n+1} as n to infty.

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