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Unfriendly or weakly unfriendly partitions of graphs

Combinatorics 2014-02-04 v1

Abstract

For each infinite cardinal κ\kappa and each graph G=(V,E)G=(V,E), we say that a partition π:V{0,1}\pi :V\rightarrow \left\{ 0,1\right\} is κ\kappa -unfriendly if, for each xVx\in V, {yV{x,y}E and π(y)π(x)}\left| \left\{ y\in V\mid \left\{ x,y\right\} \in E\text{ and }\pi (y)\neq \pi (x)\right\} \right| is {yV{x,y}E and π(y)=π(x)}\geq \left| \left\{ y\in V\mid \left\{ x,y\right\} \in E\text{ and }\pi (y)=\pi (x)\right\} \right| or κ\geq \kappa ; π\pi is unfriendly if the first property is true for each xVx\in V. Some uncountable graphs of infinite minimum degree without unfriendly partition have been constructed by S. Shelah and E.C. Milner, but it is not presently known if countable graphs without unfriendly partition exist. We show that, for each integer nn, each graph of infinite minimum degree has an ωn\omega _{n}-unfriendly partition. We also prove that the following properties are equivalent: (i) each graph has an ω\omega -unfriendly partition; (ii) each countable graph has an unfriendly partition; (iii) each countable graph without nonempty induced subgraph of infinite minimum degree has an unfriendly partition (actually it is enough to consider a smaller class of graphs).

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@article{arxiv.1402.0067,
  title  = {Unfriendly or weakly unfriendly partitions of graphs},
  author = {Francis Oger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.0067},
  year   = {2014}
}