Erdős problem 594
Erdős Problem 594 (Erdős–Hajnal [ErHa66], [Er69b]):
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Retained formal statement
Erdős Problem 594 (Erdős–Hajnal [ErHa66], [Er69b]):
Does every graph with chromatic number contain all sufficiently large odd cycles?
The answer is Yes, proved by Erdős, Hajnal, and Shelah [EHS74].
A graph has chromatic number (i.e. uncountable chromatic number) if and only if it admits no proper colouring with countably many colours; this is encoded as IsEmpty (G.Coloring ℕ). The conclusion states that there is some such that for every the graph contains a cycle of odd length .
True ↔ ∀ (V : Type) (G : SimpleGraph V), IsEmpty (G.Coloring ℕ) → ∃ N, ∀ (k : ℕ), N ≤ k → ∃ v w, w.IsCycle ∧ w.length = 2 * k + 1SolvedStatement only, no proof