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Monotone arrays and a multidimensional Ramsey Theorem

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  • User Gal Kronenberg (Oxford)
  • ClockThursday 13 March 2025, 14:30-15:30
  • HouseMR12.

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A foundational result in Ramsey theory appears in a paper of Erdős and Szekeres from 1935: any sequence of n^2 +1 distinct real numbers contains either an increasing or decreasing subsequence of length n+1. This simple result was one of the starting seeds for the development of Ramsey theory. We discuss a generalisation of the Erdős-Szekeres theorem to monotone arrays. We will show how to obtain improvements on a theorem proved by Fishburn and Graham 30 years ago thus confirming a conjecture posed by Bucic, Sudakov, and Tran. More precisely, we will show that a doubly exponential upper bound holds in all dimensions. Finally, we will see how this is intimately connected to a generalisation of Ramsey Theorem on the cartesian product of cliques. Joint work with Antonio Girao and Alex Scott.

This talk is part of the Combinatorics Seminar series.

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