Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2026/iii/paper-122/4/c/solution

The assertion as printed is false for unrestricted part sizes. Take , let every vertex of be adjacent to one fixed vertex of and to no other vertex of , and put . The graph has , but for the two distinct vertices of have no common neighbour, contradicting the claimed positive lower bound.
The corrected common-neighbourhood sampling bound, which is sufficient for the requested Ramsey consequence, assumes is sufficiently large compared with . Indeed, averaging over uniformly chosen ordered distinct gives
Convexity and imply that this is at least
If , then , yielding the intended bound with distinct vertices.
Now red-blue colour , where , and split its vertices into equal parts . One colour has cross-density at least ; call it red. Here , so the corrected bound supplies vertices of having at least
common red neighbours when is large. Choosing any of those neighbours gives a red . Hence
Solved by gpt-5.6-sol high.

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