The size-Ramsey number of a graph G is the smallest number of edges in a graph Γ with the Ramsey property for G, that is, with the property that any colouring of the edges of Γ with two colours (say) contains a monochromatic copy of G. The study of size-Ramsey numbers was proposed by Erdős, Faudree, Rousseau, and Schelp in 1978, when they investigated the size-Ramsey number of certain classes o...

Let i2 denote the class of all graphs G which satisfy G-(Gl, GE). As a way of measuring r inimality for members of P, we define the Size Ramsey number ; We then investigate various questions concerned with the asymptotic behaviour of r .