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The biased odd cycle game

Combinatorics 2013-04-12 v2

Abstract

In this paper we consider biased Maker-Breaker games played on the edge set of a given graph GG. We prove that for every δ>0\delta>0 and large enough nn, there exists a constant kk for which if δ(G)δn\delta(G)\geq \delta n and χ(G)k\chi(G)\geq k, then Maker can build an odd cycle in the (1:b)(1:b) game for b=O(nlog2n)b=O(\frac{n}{\log^2 n}). We also consider the analogous game where Maker and Breaker claim vertices instead of edges. This is a special case of the following well known and notoriously difficult problem due to Duffus, {\L}uczak and R\"{o}dl: is it true that for any positive constants tt and bb, there exists an integer kk such that for every graph GG, if χ(G)k\chi(G)\geq k, then Maker can build a graph which is not tt-colorable, in the (1:b)(1:b) Maker-Breaker game played on the vertices of GG?

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@article{arxiv.1210.4342,
  title  = {The biased odd cycle game},
  author = {Asaf Ferber and Roman Glebov and Michael Krivelevich and Hong Liu and Cory Palmer and Tomas Valla and Mate Vizer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.4342},
  year   = {2013}
}

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10 pages

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