Ramsey number
The smallest number such that any two-coloring of the edges of the complete graph must contain either a monochromatic in the first color or a monochromatic in the second color.
Lower bound:
Upper bound:
Updates
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1994
Upper bound:
J. Mackey, Combinatorial Remedies, Ph.D. thesis, Department of Mathematics, University of Hawaii, 1994.
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2015
Lower bound:
G. Exoo and M. Tatarevic, New Lower Bounds for 28 Classical Ramsey Numbers, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, http:// www.combinatorics.org, #P3.11, 22(3) (2015), 12 pages. Graphs available at the journal site and at http://cs.indstate.edu/ge/RAMSEY/ExTa.
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2020
Upper bound:
V. Angeltveit and B.D. McKay, personal communication (2019-2024).
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