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Title:
The Erdos-Hajnal conjecture for the five-cycle

Speaker:
Sophie Spirkl

Abstract:
The Erdos-Hajnal conjecture states that for every graph H there exists c > 0 such that every n-vertex graph G either contains H as an induced subgraph, or has a clique or stable set of size at least n^c. I will talk about a proof of this conjecture for the case H = C5 (a five-cycle), and related results. The proof is based on an extension of a lemma about bipartite graphs due to Pach and Tomon. This is joint work with Maria Chudnovsky, Alex Scott, and Paul Seymour.

Link:
https://mathtube.org/lecture/video/erdos-hajnal-conjecture-five-cycle

Workshop:
Mathtube- PIMS-UVic Discrete Math Seminar