On edge-ordered Ramsey numbers

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Abstract: An edge-ordered graph is a graph with a linear ordering of its edges. Two edge-ordered graphs are equivalent if their is an isomorphism between them preserving the ordering of the edges. The edge-ordered Ramsey number redge(H;q) of an edge-ordered graph H is the smallest N such that there exists an edge-ordered graph G on N vertices such that, for every q-coloring of the edges of G, there is a monochromatic subgraph of G equivalent to H. Recently, Balko and Vizer announced that redge(H;q) exists. However, their proof uses the Graham-Rothschild theorem and consequently gives an enormous upper bound on these numbers. We give a new proof giving a much better bound. We prove that for every edge-ordered graph H on n vertices, we have redge(H;q)leq2cqn2q2logqn, where c is an absolute constant. We also explore the edge-ordered Ramsey number of sparser graphs and prove a polynomial bound for edge-ordered graphs of bounded degeneracy. We also prove a strengthening for edge-labeled graphs, graphs where every edge is given a label and the labels do not necessary have an ordering.



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