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Bowtie-free graphs have a Ramsey lift

Combinatorics 2021-02-24 v5 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

A bowtie is a graph consisting of two triangles with one vertex identified. We show that the class of all (countable) graphs not containing a bowtie as a subgraph has a Ramsey lift (expansion). This solves one of the old problems in the area and it is the first non-trivial Ramsey class with a non-trivial algebraic closure.

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@article{arxiv.1402.2700,
  title  = {Bowtie-free graphs have a Ramsey lift},
  author = {Jan Hubička and Jaroslav Nešetřil},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.2700},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

32 pages, 5 figures. Minor corrections; reformatted to elsarticle; accepted to Advances in Applied Mathematics