About the Erd\"{o}s-Hajnal conjecture for seven-vertex tournaments
Abstract
A celebrated unresolved conjecture of Erd\"{o}s and Hajnal states that for every undirected graph there exists such that every undirected graph on vertices that does not contain as an induced subgraph contains a clique or a stable set of size at least . The conjecture has a directed equivalent version stating that for every tournament there exists such that every free vertex tournament contains a transitive subtournament of order at least . Both the directed and the undirected versions of the conjecture are known to be true for small graphs (tournaments). So far the conjecture was proved only for some specific families of prime tournaments, tournaments constructed according to the socalled substitution procedure allowing to build bigger graphs, and for all fivevertex tournaments. Recently the conjecture was proved for all sixvertex tournament, with one exception, but the question about the correctness of the conjecture for all sevenvertex tournaments remained open. In this paper we prove the correctness of the conjecture for several sevenvertex tournaments.
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@article{arxiv.2010.12331,
title = {About the Erd\"{o}s-Hajnal conjecture for seven-vertex tournaments},
author = {Soukaina Zayat and Salman Ghazal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.12331},
year = {2022}
}
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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1508.04992 by other authors