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Pure pairs. II. Excluding all subdivisions of a graph

Abstract:
We prove for every graph H there exists ɛ > 0 such that, for every graph G with |G|≥2, if no induced subgraph of G is a subdivision of H, then either some vertex of G has at least ɛ|G| neighbours, or there are two disjoint sets A, B ⊆ V(G) with |A|,|B|≥ɛ|G| such that no edge joins A and B. It follows that for every graph H, there exists c>0 such that for every graph G, if no induced subgraph of G or its complement is a subdivision of H, then G has a clique or stable set of cardinality at least |G|c. This is related to the Erdős-Hajnal conjecture.
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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1007/s00493-020-4024-1

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Mathematical Institute
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Author
ORCID:
0000-0003-4489-5988



Publisher:
Springer
Journal:
Combinatorica More from this journal
Volume:
41
Pages:
379-405
Publication date:
2021-07-07
Acceptance date:
2020-07-11
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EISSN:
1439-6912
ISSN:
0209-9683


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English
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Pubs id:
1118454
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pubs:1118454
Deposit date:
2020-07-13

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