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Paper   IPM / M / 18327
School of Mathematics
  Title:   On a Conjecture of Erdos on Size Ramsey Number of Star Forests
  Author(s): 
1.  Ramin Javadi
2.  Ghaffar Raeisi (Joint with A. Davoodi and A. Kamranian)
  Status:   Published
  Journal: Ars Mathematica Contemporanea
  Vol.:  9
  Year:  2025
  Pages:   1-10
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
Given graphs $ F_1, F_2$ and $G$, we say that $G$ is Ramsey for $(F_1,F_2)$ and we write $G\rightarrow(F_1, F_2)$, if for every edge coloring of $G$ by red and blue, there is either a red copy of $F_1$ or a blue copy of $F_2$ in $G$. The size Ramsey number $\hat{r}(F_1, F_2)$ is defined as the minimum number of edges of a graph $G$ such that $G\rightarrow(F_1, F_2)$. This paper provides the exact value of $\hat{r}(F_1, F_2)$ for many pairs $(F_1, F_2)$ of star forests, giving a partial solution to a conjecture of Burr et al. (Ramsey-minimal graphs for multiple copies, Indagationes Mathematicae, 81(2) (1978), 187-195).

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