A note on Ramsey numbers for fans

For two given graphs G1 and G2, the Ramsey number R(G1,G2) is the smallest integer N such that, for any graph G of order N, either G contains G1 as a subgraph or the complement of G contains G2 as a subgraph. A fan Fl is l triangles sharing exactly one vertex. In this note, it is shown that R(Fn, Fm) = 4n + 1 for n ≥ max{m 2 − m/2, 11m/2 − 4}