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An exponential improvement for diagonal Ramsey

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arxiv 2303.09521 v2 pith:A4LE5TDD submitted 2023-03-16 math.CO

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The Ramsey number $R(k)$ is the minimum $n \in \mathbb{N}$ such that every red-blue colouring of the edges of the complete graph $K_n$ on $n$ vertices contains a monochromatic copy of $K_k$. We prove that \[ R(k) \leqslant (4 - \varepsilon)^k \] for some constant $\varepsilon > 0$. This is the first exponential improvement over the upper bound of Erd\H{o}s and Szekeres, proved in 1935.

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