The size-Ramsey number of 3-uniform tight paths

Abstract

Given a hypergraph H, the size-Ramsey number r(H) is the smallest integer m such that there exists a graph G with m edges with the property that in any colouring of the edges of G with two colours there is amonochromatic copy of H. We prove that the size-Ramsey number of the 3-uniform tight path on n vertices P_n is linear in n, i.e., r(P_n)=O(n). This answers a question by Dudek, Fleur, Mubayi, and Rödl for 3-uniform hypergraphs [On the size-Ramsey number of hypergraphs, J. Graph Theory 86 (2016), 417-434], who proved r(P_n)=O(n^1.5*log^1.5 n).