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On the solution to the Erdős-Hajnal problem on high-girth high-chromatic subgraphs

Tung Nguyen, Bartosz Walczak

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Source: arXiv

Published: Sep 30, 2026

arXiv: 2609.40192

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A well-known problem of Erdős and Hajnal from the 1960s asks whether every graph with huge chromatic number contains a subgraph with large girth and large chromatic number. Very recently, Kohlmeyer and Kruer provided a strong negative solution to this problem: a construction of triangle-free graphs with arbitrarily large chromatic number whose subgraphs with no four-cycle have chromatic number at most 66. The purpose of this exposition is to explain the construction method, relate it to relevant literature, and optimise the bound `66' to `33'.

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