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Published by the American Mathematical Society since 1950, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society is devoted to shorter research articles in all areas of pure and applied mathematics.

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On the chromatic number of subgraphs of a given graph
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by V. Rödl
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 64 (1977), 370-371
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1977-0469806-4

Abstract:

It is shown that for arbitrary positive integers m,n there exists a $\phi (m,n)$ such that if $\chi (G) \geqslant \phi (m,n)$, then G contains either a complete subgraph of size m or a subgraph H with $\chi (H) = n$ containing no ${C_3}$. This gives an answer to a problem of Erdös and Hajnal.
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Bibliographic Information
  • © Copyright 1977 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 64 (1977), 370-371
  • MSC: Primary 05C15
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1977-0469806-4
  • MathSciNet review: 0469806