Infinite induced-saturated graphs
Combinatorics
2025-09-03 v3
Abstract
A graph is -induced-saturated if is -free but deleting any edge or adding any edge creates an induced copy of . There are non-trivial graphs , such as , for which no finite -induced-saturated graph exists. We show that for every finite graph that is not a clique or an independent set, there always exists a countable -induced-saturated graph. In fact, we show that a far stronger property can be achieved: there is a countably infinite -free graph such that any graph obtained by making a locally finite set of changes to contains a copy of .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2506.08810,
title = {Infinite induced-saturated graphs},
author = {Marthe Bonamy and Carla Groenland and Tom Johnston and Natasha Morrison and Alex Scott},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.08810},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
26 pages, 13 figures