Abstract
The Ramsey game we consider in this paper is played on an unbounded set of vertices by two players, called Builder and Painter. In one move Builder introduces a new edge and Painter paints it red or blue. The goal of Builder is to force Painter to create a monochromatic copy of a fixed target graph H, keeping the constructed graph in a prescribed class G. The main problem is to recognize the winner for a given pair H, G. In particular, we prove that Builder has a winning strategy for any k-colorable graph H in the game played on k-colorable graphs. Another class of graphs with this strange self-unavoidability property is the class of forests. We show that the class of outerplanar graphs does not have this property. The question of whether planar graphs are self-unavoidable is left open. We also consider a multicolor version of Ramsey on-line game. To extend our main result for 3-colorable graphs we introduce another Ramsey type game, which seems interesting in its own right.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-10 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Electronic Journal of Combinatorics |
Volume | 11 |
Issue number | 1 R |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 9 2004 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Geometry and Topology
- Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
- Computational Theory and Mathematics
- Applied Mathematics