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Tournaments and the Erd\"{o}s-Hajnal Conjecture

Combinatorics 2022-08-11 v2

Abstract

The celebrated Erd\"{o}s-Hajnal conjecture states that for every undirected graph HH there exists ϵ(H)>0 \epsilon(H) > 0 such that every undirected graph on n n vertices that does not contain HH as an induced subgraph contains a clique or a stable set of size at least nϵ(H) n^{\epsilon(H)} . This conjecture has a directed equivalent version stating that for every tournament HH there exists ϵ(H)>0 \epsilon(H) > 0 such that every HH-free nn-vertex tournament TT contains a transitive subtournament of order at least nϵ(H) n^{\epsilon(H)} . This conjecture is proved for few infinite families of tournaments. In this paper we construct a new infinite family of tournaments - the family of so-called flotilla-galaxies and we prove the correctness of the conjecture for every flotilla-galaxy tournament.

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@article{arxiv.2010.12330,
  title  = {Tournaments and the Erd\"{o}s-Hajnal Conjecture},
  author = {Soukaina Zayat and Salman Ghazal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.12330},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2010.12329; and text overlap with arXiv:1508.04992 by other authors