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Ramsey-Type Results For Semi-Algebraic Relations

Conlon, David
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Fox, Jacob
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Pach, Janos  
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2014
Transactions Of The American Mathematical Society

A k-ary semi-algebraic relation E on R-d is a subset of R-kd, the set of k-tuples of points in R-d, which is determined by a finite number of polynomial inequalities in kd real variables. The description complexity of such a relation is at most t if d, k <= t and the number of polynomials and their degrees are all bounded by t. A set A subset of R-d is called homogeneous if all or none of the k-tuples from A satisfy E. A large number of geometric Ramseytype problems and results can be formulated as questions about finding large homogeneous subsets of sets in R-d equipped with semi-algebraic relations. In this paper, we study Ramsey numbers for k-ary semi-algebraic relations of bounded complexity and give matching upper and lower bounds, showing that they grow as a tower of height k-1. This improves upon a direct application of Ramsey's theorem by one exponential and extends a result of Alon, Pach, Pinchasi, Radoicic, and Sharir, who proved this for k = 2. We apply our results to obtain new estimates for some geometric Ramsey-type problems relating to order types and one-sided sets of hyperplanes. We also study the off-diagonal case, achieving some partial results.

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research article
DOI
10.1090/S0002-9947-2014-06179-5
Web of Science ID

WOS:000344826000019

Author(s)
Conlon, David
Fox, Jacob
Pach, Janos  
Sudakov, Benny
Suk, Andrew  
Date Issued

2014

Publisher

Amer Mathematical Soc

Published in
Transactions Of The American Mathematical Society
Volume

366

Issue

9

Start page

5043

End page

5065

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REVIEWED

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December 30, 2014
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