Our own arrangement of the two-colour classical Ramsey numbers R(k, l) with 3 ≤ k ≤ 10 and k ≤ l ≤ 15, which is 72 of those 76 pairs because the survey Small Ramsey Numbers gives no value for R(9, 14), R(9, 15), R(10, 13) or R(10, 14). Each value is the one the survey prints, shown with the reference the survey credits for it, and marked either independently sourced, where our own check of what that reference credits supports the value, or credited to the survey and not independently checked. Every value marked the second way says why beside it, and the notes kept on each reading say what was actually read or recomputed.
The source. Stanisław Radziszowski, Small Ramsey Numbers, The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, dynamic survey DS1, revision #18, 24 April 2026, Section 2.1, Tables Ia and Ib. The survey is credited for every value here and remains the authority. This page is our arrangement of its values and reference keys, not a copy of the document. What this page copies from the survey, and how to ask for a change.
What is covered. Section 2.1 only: 72 values of R(k, l). Table Ia prints something for 72 of them, and Table Ib prints a newer upper bound for 50. Not covered: everything else in the survey, including other graphs, more than two colours and hypergraphs, and any result published after revision #18.
What is watched. Once a day a scheduled job checks the journal’s page and the author’s revision list for a newer revision, and re-reads this table from the survey’s PDF, whose fingerprint is pinned. A new revision turns that job red until a person has compared it with this page. The run history is the live read; this page is not.
What has been checked against its source. The survey credits each bound to a paper by the key shown beside it, such as [AnM4], and an entry can credit its lower and upper bound to different papers. So every bound carries its own mark. Every bound Table Ia credits to a reference was taken in a census, completed on 15 October 2026: the 122 bounds credited under 42 reference keys were each attempted, and the note kept on each records what was tried. What a key credits is usually a paper, but can be a thesis, a manuscript, a personal communication, a web page, a published graph file, or a derivation the survey gives itself. A bound is marked independently sourced only when the reading was SOUND: what the key credits, or a construction or derivation it gives, was reached and supports the value; the notes kept on each reading say which edition or file that was. Every other bound is marked credited to the survey and not independently checked, with a sentence saying why; that includes bounds whose value was seen only in an abstract or in a different edition from the one the survey cites. A bound whose credited source was read and does not support it would carry neither mark; there are none. 6 values Table Ia prints credit no source to read (no reference is printed, or the reference is an item of the survey’s own Section 2.3), and Table Ib’s upper bounds were outside the census; the one Table Ib value the survey credits to a single paper is marked by that paper’s reading of the same bound in Table Ia. The notes kept on each reading name what was read and what it said. So far, of the 128 bounds Table Ia prints (its 124 numbers, with an exact value counted twice where its lower and upper halves are credited to different references): sound 53 (the credited source was read, and it supports this bound) · defective 0 (the credited source was read, and it does not support this bound) · unresolved 49 (what could be read did not settle this bound) · unreachable 20 (the credited source could not be read at all) · not yet read 0 · nothing to read it against 6. In all, 53 are independently sourced and 75 are credited to the survey and not independently checked.
Table Ia and Table Ib can print different upper bounds for the same number. Table Ib lists upper bounds from computations by Angeltveit and McKay ([AnM2], [AnM3], [AnM4]) and R(4, 5) from [MR4], and the survey says they improve on the upper bounds in Table Ia. Where both tables print one, this page shows both and does not choose between them for you.
[HW+] is the survey’s own abbreviation of [HWSYZH], as enhanced in [Boza5]. A reference written as item 2.3.h of the survey points to a numbered item of its Section 2.3, not to a paper.
If an entry disagrees with the survey or with the paper it credits, use looks wrong? on that entry. The report arrives already naming the entry and the revision.