The multicolour size-Ramsey number of powers of paths


Abstract in English

Given a positive integer $s$, a graph $G$ is $s$-Ramsey for a graph $H$, denoted $Grightarrow (H)_s$, if every $s$-colouring of the edges of $G$ contains a monochromatic copy of $H$. The $s$-colour size-Ramsey number ${hat{r}}_s(H)$ of a graph $H$ is defined to be ${hat{r}}_s(H)=min{|E(G)|colon Grightarrow (H)_s}$. We prove that, for all positive integers $k$ and $s$, we have ${hat{r}}_s(P_n^k)=O(n)$, where $P_n^k$ is the $k$th power of the $n$-vertex path $P_n$.

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