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Uncountable dichromatic number without short directed cycles

Combinatorics 2023-06-16 v3 Logic

Abstract

A. Hajnal and P. Erd\H{o}s proved that a graph with uncountable chromatic number cannot avoid short cycles, it must contain for example C4 C_4 (among other obligatory subgraphs). It was shown recently by D. T. Soukup that, in contrast of the undirected case, it is consistent that for any n<ω n<\omega there exists an uncountably dichromatic digraph without directed cycles shorter than n n . He asked if it is provable already in ZFC. We answer his question positively by constructing for every infinite cardinal κ \kappa and n<ω n<\omega a digraph of size 2κ 2^{\kappa} with dichromatic number at least κ+ \kappa^{+} which does not contain directed cycles of length less than n n as a subdigraph.

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@article{arxiv.1905.00782,
  title  = {Uncountable dichromatic number without short directed cycles},
  author = {Attila Joó},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.00782},
  year   = {2023}
}

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3 pages, 1 figure

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