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| author | Łuczak, Tomasz Polcyn, Joanna Reiher, Christian |
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| contents | Solving a long standing conjecture of Erdős and Simonovits, Brandt and Thomassé proved that the chromatic number of each triangle-free graph $G$ such that $δ(G)>|V(G)|/3$ is at most four. In fact, they showed the much stronger result that every maximal triangle-free graph $G$ satisfying this minimum degree condition is a blow-up of either an Andrásfai or a Vega graph.
Here we establish the same structural conclusion on $G$ under the weaker assumption that for $m\in\{2, 3, 4\}$ every sequence of $3m$ vertices has a subsequence of length $m+1$ with a common neighbour. In forthcoming work this will be used to solve an old problem of Andrásfai in Ramsey-Turán theory. |
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| spellingShingle | Strong Brandt-Thomassé Theorems Łuczak, Tomasz Polcyn, Joanna Reiher, Christian Combinatorics 05C35, 05C07, 05C15 Solving a long standing conjecture of Erdős and Simonovits, Brandt and Thomassé proved that the chromatic number of each triangle-free graph $G$ such that $δ(G)>|V(G)|/3$ is at most four. In fact, they showed the much stronger result that every maximal triangle-free graph $G$ satisfying this minimum degree condition is a blow-up of either an Andrásfai or a Vega graph. Here we establish the same structural conclusion on $G$ under the weaker assumption that for $m\in\{2, 3, 4\}$ every sequence of $3m$ vertices has a subsequence of length $m+1$ with a common neighbour. In forthcoming work this will be used to solve an old problem of Andrásfai in Ramsey-Turán theory. |
| title | Strong Brandt-Thomassé Theorems |
| topic | Combinatorics 05C35, 05C07, 05C15 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10745 |