Local Ramsey numbers for copies of cycles

Abstract We prove that the 2-local Ramsey number R 2-loc ( nC 4 ) is equal to R ( nC 4 ). Moreover, R 2-loc ( nC 2 k +1 )= n (4 k +3)−2 for k ⩾2 or n ⩾2 and R 2-loc ( k ( C 3 ∪ C 4 ))=15 k −2 for k ⩾1.