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The celebrated Erd\H{o}s-Hajnal Conjecture says that in any proper hereditary class of finite graphs we are guaranteed to have a clique or anti-clique of size $n^c$, which is a much better bound than the logarithmic size that is provided by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Leonardo N. Coregliano , Maryanthe Malliaris

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

In 1972, Erd\"{o}s - Faber - Lov\'{a}sz (EFL) conjectured that, if $\textbf{H}$ is a linear hypergraph consisting of $n$ edges of cardinality $n$, then it is possible to color the vertices with $n$ colors so that no two vertices with the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-19 Suresh M. H. , V. V. P. R. V. B. Suresh Dara

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 2022-08-10 Salman Ghazal , Soukaina Zayat

The Erd\H{o}s-Hajnal conjecture states that for every given undirected graph $H$ there exists a constant $c(H)>0$ such that every graph $G$ that does not contain $H$ as an induced subgraph contains a clique or a stable set of size at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-28 Krzysztof Choromanski

In 1972, Erd\"{o}s - Faber - Lov\'{a}sz (EFL) conjectured that, if $\textbf{H}$ is a linear hypergraph consisting of $n$ edges of cardinality $n$, then it is possible to color the vertices with $n$ colors so that no two vertices with the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-19 S. M. Hegde , Suresh Dara

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

A classical result of Corr\'adi and Hajnal states that every graph $G$ on $n$ vertices with $n\in 3\mathbb{N}$ and $\delta(G) \ge 2n/3$ contains a perfect triangle-tiling, i.e.,\ a spanning set of vertex-disjoint triangles. We explore a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Allan Lo , Ella Williams

Given a graph $G$ and a real $\varepsilon>0$, an edge-coloring of $G$ is called $\varepsilon$-balanced if each color appears on at least an $\varepsilon$-fraction of the edges in $G$. A classical result of Erd\H{o}s and Szemer\'{e}di…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Dingyuan Liu

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

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

Haj\'os conjectured that every graph containing no subdivision of the complete graph $K_{s+1}$ is properly $s$-colorable. This conjecture was disproved by Catlin. Indeed, the maximum chromatic number of such graphs is $\Omega(s^2/\log s)$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Chun-Hung Liu , David R. Wood

The Erd\H{o}s--Faber--Lov\'{a}sz Conjecture, posed in 1972, states that if a graph $G$ is the union of $n$ cliques of order $n$ (referred to as defining $n$-cliques) such that two cliques can share at most one vertex, then the vertices of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-22 John Baptist Gauci , Jean Paul Zerafa

We prove a conjecture of Kim and Oum that every proper pivot-minor-closed class of graphs has the strong Erd\H{o}s-Hajnal property. More precisely, for every graph $H$, there exists $\epsilon > 0$ such that every $n$-vertex graph with no…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-09 James Davies

Let $H$ be a triple system with maximum degree $d>1$ and let $r>10^7\sqrt{d}\log^{2}d$. Then $H$ has a proper vertex coloring with $r$ colors such that any two color classes differ in size by at most one. The bound on $r$ is sharp in order…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-05-25 Hal Kierstead , Dhruv Mubayi

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

A famous conjecture of Caccetta and H\"aggkvist is that in a digraph on $n$ vertices and minimum out-degree at least $\frac{n}{r}$ there is a directed cycle of length $r$ or less. We consider the following generalization: in an undirected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-05 Ron Aharoni , Ron Holzman , Matthew DeVos

A famous conjecture of Sidorenko and Erd\H{o}s-Simonovits states that if H is a bipartite graph then the random graph with edge density p has in expectation asymptotically the minimum number of copies of H over all graphs of the same order…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-09-04 David Conlon , Jacob Fox , Benny Sudakov

Let $H$ be a fixed graph whose edges are colored red and blue and let $\beta \in [0,1]$. Let $I(H, \beta)$ be the (asymptotically normalized) maximum number of copies of $H$ in a large red/blue edge-colored complete graph $G$, where the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-08 József Balogh , Bernard Lidický , Dhruv Mubayi , Florian Pfender , Jan Volec

This paper is concerned with two conjectures which are intimately related. The first is a generalization to hypergraphs of Vizing's Theorem on the chromatic index of a graph and the second is the well-known conjecture of Erd\H{o}s, Faber…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Alain Bretto , Alain Faisant , Francois Hennecart