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Erdős problem 594

Erdős Problem 594 (Erdős–Hajnal [ErHa66], [Er69b]):

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Erdős Problem 594 (Erdős–Hajnal [ErHa66], [Er69b]):

Does every graph GG with chromatic number 1\geq \aleph_1 contain all sufficiently large odd cycles?

The answer is Yes, proved by Erdős, Hajnal, and Shelah [EHS74].

A graph has chromatic number 1\geq \aleph_1 (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 NN such that for every kNk \geq N the graph contains a cycle of odd length 2k+12k + 1.

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True  ∀ (V : Type) (G : SimpleGraph V),    IsEmpty (G.Coloring ℕ) → ∃ N, ∀ (k : ℕ), Nk → ∃ v w, w.IsCyclew.length = 2 * k + 1
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