Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 122 4 c Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
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 givesConvexity and imply that this is at leastIf , then , yielding the intended bound with distinct vertices.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 122 4 d Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Let and red-blue colour . Across an equal bipartition, one colour has density at least . Repeated common-neighbourhood sampling, withfinds distinct vertices whose common neighbourhood in one colour has size at leastwhich is a sufficiently large polynomial in when is fixed and large.
Apply the complete-bipartite Ramsey completion lemma to this polynomial-size common neighbourhood. The lemma iterates the same averaging argument for the remaining vertices: either they extend to one side of a in the first colour, or their failed extensions have enough edges in the other colour to form a there. Taking and then sufficiently large therefore forces a monochromatic . Consequently