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Horizons in Combinatorics/16th Shanks Lecture Series
May 21-24, 2001
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN, USA

Organizers
Paul Edelman, Mark Ellingham, Jonathan Farley, Mike Plummer, Jerry Spinrad

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On Regressive Ramsey Numbers
by
Peter Blanchard
Denison University, Granville, Ohio

A function f:[X]n --> N is regressive if f(s) < min(s) for all s in [X]n such that min(s) > 0, where X subset or equal N is a set of natural numbers. A set H subset or equal X is min-homogeneous for f if f(s) depends only on min(s) for all s in [H]n. The regressive Ramsey number Rnreg(k) is the least m so that any regressive coloring of [m]n must have a min-homogeneous set of order k.

In this talk we announce several regressive Ramsey numbers, discuss bounds for some regressive Ramsey numbers, and describe a relation between regressive Ramsey numbers and ordinary Ramsey numbers.

Date received: April 12, 2001


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