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Erdős problem 599

Erdős Problem 599 (the Erdős–Menger conjecture).

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Erdős Problem 599 (the Erdős–Menger conjecture).

Let GG be a (possibly infinite) graph and let A,BA, B be disjoint independent sets of vertices. Must there exist a family PP of pairwise vertex-disjoint paths from AA to BB, and a set SS of vertices containing exactly one vertex from each path in PP, such that every path from AA to BB contains at least one vertex of SS?

For finite GG this is equivalent to Menger's theorem. The answer is yes, proved by Aharoni and Berger [AhBe09].

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True  ∀ (V : Type) (G : SimpleGraph V) (A B : Set V),    Disjoint A B      G.IsIndepSet A        G.IsIndepSet B          ∃ ι a b p S,            (∀ (i : ι), a iA) ∧              (∀ (i : ι), b iB) ∧                (∀ (i : ι), (p i).IsPath) ∧                  (Pairwise fun i j => Disjoint {v | v ∈ (p i).support} {v | v ∈ (p j).support}) ∧                    S ⊆ {v | ∃ i, v ∈ (p i).support} ∧                      (∀ (i : ι), ∃! v, vSv ∈ (p i).support) ∧a'A, ∀ b'B, ∀ (q : G.Walk a' b'), q.IsPath → ∃ vq.support, vS
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