Ramsey numbers of Berge-hypergraphs and related structures (Q2278117)

Summary: For a graph \(G=(V,E)\), a hypergraph \(\mathcal{H}\) is called a Berge-\(G\), denoted by \(BG\), if there exists an injection \(f: E(G) \to E(\mathcal{H})\) such that for every \(e \in E(G)\), \(e \subseteq f(e)\). Let the Ramsey number \(R^r(BG,BG)\) be the smallest integer \(n\) such that for any \(2\)-edge-coloring of a complete \(r\)-uniform hypergraph on \(n\) vertices, there is a monochromatic Berge-\(G\) subhypergraph. In this paper, we show that the 2-color Ramsey number of Berge cliques is linear. In particular, we show that \(R^3(BK_s, BK_t) = s+t-3\) for \(s,t \geq 4\) and \(\max(s,t) \geq 5\) where \(BK_n\) is a Berge-\(K_n\) hypergraph. For higher uniformity, we show that \(R^4(BK_t, BK_t) = t+1\) for \(t\geq 6\) and \(R^k(BK_t, BK_t)=t\) for \(k \geq 5\) and \(t\) sufficiently large. We also investigate the Ramsey number of trace hypergraphs, suspension hypergraphs and expansion hypergraphs.