When are off-diagonal hypergraph Ramsey numbers polynomial?

Abstract

A natural open problem in Ramsey theory is to determine those $3$-graphs $H$ for which the off-diagonal Ramsey number $r(H,K_n^{(3)})$ grows polynomially with $n$. We make substantial progress on this question by showing that if $H$ is tightly connected or has at most two tight components, then $r(H,K_n^{(3)})$ grows polynomially if and only if $H$ is contained in an iterated blowup of an edge.

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