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 . We prove that for every and large enough , there exists a constant for which if and , then Maker can build an odd cycle in the game for . 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 and , there exists an integer such that for every graph , if , then Maker can build a graph which is not -colorable, in the Maker-Breaker game played on the vertices of ?
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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