Ramsey and Gallai-Ramsey number for wheels

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Abstract: Given a graph G and a positive integer k, define the emph{Gallai-Ramsey number} to be the minimum number of vertices n such that any k-edge coloring of Kn contains either a rainbow (all different colored) triangle or a monochromatic copy of G. Much like graph Ramsey numbers, Gallai-Ramsey numbers have gained a reputation as being very difficult to compute in general. As yet, still only precious few sharp results are known. In this paper, we obtain bounds on the Gallai-Ramsey number for wheels and the exact value for the wheel on 5 vertices.


Given two graphs \(G\) and \(H\), the general \(k\)-colored Gallai-Ramsey number gr\(_{k}(G:H)\) is defined to be the minimum integer \(m\) such that every \(k\)-coloring of the complete graph on \(m\) vertices contains either a rainbow copy of \(G\) or a monochromatic copy of \(H\). In this paper, the authors give upper and lower bounds for classical Ramsey number of the wheel \(W_n\) as follows: For \(k \geq 1\) and \(n \geq 7\), \(3n-3 \leq R(W_n,W_n) \leq 8n - 10\), if \(n\) is even and \(2n - 2 \leq R(W_n,W_n)\leq 6n - 8\), if \(n\) is odd. They also obtain the exact value of gr\(_{k}(K_3:W_5)\) for every \(k\geq 1\). Finally, general upper and lower bounds on the Gallai-Ramsey numbers for all wheels are provided.











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