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The Erdos-Hajnal conjecture states that if a graph on n vertices is H-free, that is, it does not contain an induced copy of a given graph H, then it must contain either a clique or an independent set of size n^{d(H)}, where d(H) > 0 depends…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-05-02 David Conlon , Jacob Fox , Benny Sudakov

The Erd\H{o}s-Hajnal conjecture says that, for every graph $H$, there exists $c>0$ such that every $H$-free graph on $n$ vertices has a clique or stable set of size at least $n^c$. In this paper we are concerned with the case when $H$ is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Tung Nguyen , Alex Scott , Paul Seymour

The Erdos-Hajnal conjecture says that for every graph H there exists c>0 such that every graph G not containing H as an induced subgraph has a clique or stable set of cardinality at least |G|^c. We prove that this is true when H is a cycle…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-10 Maria Chudnovsky , Alex Scott , Paul Seymour , Sophie Spirkl

The Erd\H{o}s-Hajnal conjecture is one of the most classical and well-known problems in extremal and structural combinatorics dating back to 1977. It asserts that in stark contrast to the case of a general $n$-vertex graph if one imposes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-27 Pablo Blanco , Matija Bucić

We prove for every graph H there exists a>0 such that, for every graph G with at least two vertices, if no induced subgraph of G is a subdivision of H, then either some vertex of G has at least a|G| neighbours, or there are two disjoint…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-03 Maria Chudnovsky , Alex Scott , Paul Seymour , Sophie Spirkl

The Erd\"os-Hajnal conjecture states that for every graph $H$, there exists a constant $\delta(H) > 0$ such that every graph $G$ with no induced subgraph isomorphic to $H$ has either a clique or a stable set of size at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-29 Maria Chudnovsky

The well-known Erd\H{o}s-Hajnal conjecture states that for any graph $F$, there exists $\epsilon>0$ such that every $n$-vertex graph $G$ that contains no induced copy of $F$ has a homogeneous set of size at least $n^{\epsilon}$. We consider…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-03 Maria Axenovich , Domagoj Bradač , Lior Gishboliner , Dhruv Mubayi , Lea Weber

We prove that for every k, there exists $c_k>0$ such that every graph G on n vertices not inducing a path $P_k$ and its complement contains a clique or a stable set of size $n^{c_k}$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-25 Nicolas Bousquet , Aurélie Lagoutte , Stéphan Thomassé

The celebrated Erd\H{o}s-Hajnal conjecture says that any graph without a fixed induced subgraph $H$ contains a very large homogeneous set. A direct analog of this conjecture is not true for hypergraphs. In this paper we present two natural…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Fabian Arnold , Lior Gishboliner , Benny Sudakov

Erd\H{o}s and Hajnal conjectured that, for every graph $H$, there exists a constant $c_H$ such that every graph $G$ on $n$ vertices which does not contain any induced copy of $H$ has a clique or a stable set of size $n^{c_H}$. We prove that…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Marthe Bonamy , Nicolas Bousquet , Stéphan Thomassé

The Erdos-Hajnal Conjecture asserts that for every graph H there is a constant c > 0 such that every graph G that does not contain H as an induced subgraph has a clique or stable set of cardinality at least |G|^c. In this paper, we prove a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Maria Chudnovsky , Alex Scott , Paul Seymour , Sophie Spirkl

We prove the Erd\H{o}s-Hajnal conjecture for the five-vertex path $P_5$; that is, there exists $c>0$ such that every $n$-vertex graph with no induced $P_5$ has a clique or stable set of size at least $n^c$. This completes the verification…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Tung Nguyen , Alex Scott , Paul Seymour

Erd\"{o}s-Hajnal conjecture states that for every undirected graph $H$ there exists $ \epsilon(H) > 0 $ such that every undirected graph on $ n $ vertices that does not contain $H$ as an induced subgraph contains a clique or a stable set of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Soukaina Zayat , Salman Ghazal

The well-known Erd\H{o}s-Hajnal conjecture states that for any graph $F$, there exists $\epsilon>0$ such that every $n$-vertex graph $G$ that contains no induced copy of $F$ has a homogeneous set of size at least $n^{\epsilon}$. We consider…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-20 Maria Axenovich , Dhruv Mubayi , Lea Weber

The celebrated Erd\"{o}s-Hajnal conjecture states that for every undirected graph $H$ there exists $ \epsilon(H) > 0 $ such that every undirected graph on $ n $ vertices that does not contain $H$ as an induced subgraph contains a clique or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-11 Soukaina Zayat , Salman Ghazal

A "hole-with-hat" in a graph $G$ is an induced subgraph of $G$ that consists of a cycle of length at least four, together with one further vertex that has exactly two neighbours in the cycle, adjacent to each other, and the "house" is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Maria Chudnovsky , Paul Seymour

A celebrated unresolved conjecture of Erd\"{o}s and Hajnal states that for every undirected graph $H$ there exists $ \epsilon(H) > 0 $ such that every undirected graph on $ n $ vertices that does not contain $H$ as an induced subgraph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-11 Soukaina Zayat , Salman Ghazal

Erd\H{o}s and Hajnal conjectured that for every graph $H$, there exists $c>0$ such that every $H$-free graph $G$ has a clique or a stable set of size at least $|G|^c$ (a graph is $H$-free if it has no induced subgraph isomorphic to $H$).…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Tung Nguyen , Alex Scott , Paul Seymour

The celebrated Erd\H{o}s-Hajnal conjecture states that for every proper hereditary graph class $\mathcal{G}$ there exists a constant $\varepsilon = \varepsilon(\mathcal{G}) > 0$ such that every graph $G \in \mathcal{G}$ contains a clique or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-25 Anita Liebenau , Marcin Pilipczuk

Informally, the Erd\H{o}s-Hajnal conjecture (shortly EH-conjecture) asserts that if a sufficiently large host clique on $n$ vertices is edge-coloured avoiding a copy of some fixed edge-coloured clique, then there is a large homogeneous set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Maria Axenovich , Lea Weber
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