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Solution of Irving's Ramsey problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2009

Heiko Harborth  and
Heinz-Michael Nitzschke
Heiko Harborth
Affiliation:
Technische Universität Braunschweig, D-3300 Braunschweig, West Germany
Heinz-Michael Nitzschke
Affiliation:
Technische Universität Braunschweig, D-3300 Braunschweig, West Germany
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In [1] the following question was posed by R. W. Irving (see also Conjecture 4.10 in [4]): Is there an edge 2-colouring of the complete bipartite graph K13,17 with no monochromatic K3,3? We give a negative answer in this note (Theorem 2). Furthermore we prove Conjecture 4.11 (i) of [4] (Theorem 1), that is, any edge 2-coloured K2n+1,4n−3 contains a monochromatic K2,n with the 2 and n vertices a subset of the 2n+1 and 4n−3 vertices, respectively. Theorem 1 is a consequence of Satz 4 in [3], however, we give a direct proof here.

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Research Article
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Glasgow Mathematical Journal , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , January 1980 , pp. 187 - 197
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Copyright © Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust 1980

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