On the cover Ramsey number of Berge hypergraphs

For a fixed set of positive integers $R$, we say $mathcal{H}$ is an $R$-uniform hypergraph, or $R$-graph, if the cardinality of each edge belongs to $R$. An $R$-graph $mathcal{H}$ is emph{covering} if every vertex pair of $mathcal{H}$ is contained in some hyperedge. For a graph $G=(V,E)$, a hypergraph $mathcal{H}$ is called a textit{Berge}-$G$, denoted by $BG$, if there exists an injection $f: E(G) to E(mathcal{H})$ such that for every $e in E(G)$, $e subseteq f(e)$. In this note, we define a new type of Ramsey number, namely the emph{cover Ramsey number}, denoted as $hat{R}^R(BG_1, BG_2)$, as the smallest integer $n_0$ such that for every covering $R$-uniform hypergraph $mathcal{H}$ on $n geq n_0$ vertices and every $2$-edge-coloring (blue and red) of $mathcal{H}$ , there is either a blue Berge-$G_1$ or a red Berge-$G_2$ subhypergraph. We show that for every $kgeq 2$, there exists some $c_k$ such that for any finite graphs $G_1$ and $G_2$, $R(G_1, G_2) leq hat{R}^{[k]}(BG_1, BG_2) leq c_k cdot R(G_1, G_2)^3$. Moreover, we show that for each positive integer $d$ and $k$, there exists a constant $c = c(d,k)$ such that if $G$ is a graph on $n$ vertices with maximum degree at most $d$, then $hat{R}^{[k]}(BG,BG) leq cn$.