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Infinite induced-saturated graphs

Combinatorics 2025-09-03 v3

Abstract

A graph GG is HH-induced-saturated if GG is HH-free but deleting any edge or adding any edge creates an induced copy of HH. There are non-trivial graphs HH, such as P4P_4, for which no finite HH-induced-saturated graph GG exists. We show that for every finite graph HH that is not a clique or an independent set, there always exists a countable HH-induced-saturated graph. In fact, we show that a far stronger property can be achieved: there is a countably infinite HH-free graph GG such that any graph GGG'\ne G obtained by making a locally finite set of changes to GG contains a copy of HH.

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@article{arxiv.2506.08810,
  title  = {Infinite induced-saturated graphs},
  author = {Marthe Bonamy and Carla Groenland and Tom Johnston and Natasha Morrison and Alex Scott},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.08810},
  year   = {2025}
}

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26 pages, 13 figures

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