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Star Expansions and the Erdős-Hajnal Property — Examples
1 · Prerequisites
2 · Summary
These examples keep the finite witnesses on the page side rather than inside the long A-page proofs. Each verification is an adjacency audit in a concrete star-expansion.
3 · Logical flowchart
4 · Definitions, theorems and proofs
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5 · Examples, counterexamples and false statements
The star-expansion of the four-vertex path
Example
Let have vertices in path order. Its star-expansion has additional vertices and edge set
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The path .
The star-expansion adds a tooth adjacent to its matched vertex and to the root , with no other edges incident with ; the root is adjacent only to the teeth (The star-expansion of a graph).
Verification
Applying [L1] to the four path vertices gives the eight new edges and for , together with no others incident to the new vertices.
Keeping the original path edges and adding exactly the edges from step 1.1 yields the displayed graph.
The star-expansion of the four-vertex path contains an induced five-cycle
Example
In the star-expansion of , the vertices induce a five-cycle.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The star-expansion of with root , teeth , and path vertices .
The only edges using the new vertices are and (The star-expansion of a graph).
Verification
Among the chosen five vertices, the edges are exactly .
No chord is present: and are nonadjacent, neither tooth is adjacent to the wrong path vertex, and the root is not adjacent to or . Hence the chosen vertices induce a five-cycle.
The star-expansion of the four-vertex path contains an induced six-cycle
Example
In the star-expansion of , the vertices induce a six-cycle.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The star-expansion of with root , teeth , and path vertices .
The only edges using the new vertices are and (The star-expansion of a graph).
Verification
Among the chosen six vertices, the edges are exactly .
The teeth create no further chord, and the path contributes no edge . Hence those six vertices induce a six-cycle.
The star-expansion of the four-vertex path contains an induced seven-cycle
Example
In the star-expansion of , the vertices induce a seven-cycle.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The star-expansion of with root , teeth , and path vertices .
The only edges using the new vertices are and (The star-expansion of a graph).
Verification
Among the chosen seven vertices, the edges are exactly .
The path contributes no nonconsecutive edge, and the two teeth touch only the root and their matched path vertices. Hence the chosen vertices induce a seven-cycle.
The star-expansion of contains the hatted five-cycle
Example
The star-expansion of contains an induced hatted five-cycle.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The star-expansion of .
The A-page lemma proves this containment directly (The star-expansion of contains the hatted five-cycle).
Verification
Apply [L1] to the star-expansion of .
The chosen six-vertex induced subgraph is exactly a hatted five-cycle.
Sources
- Shenwei Huang, Yiao Ju, and Yidong Zhou, Erdős-Hajnal beyond the five-vertex path, Figure 3
- Shenwei Huang, Yiao Ju, and Yidong Zhou, Erdős-Hajnal beyond the five-vertex path, Figure 3 discussion
- Shenwei Huang, Yiao Ju, and Yidong Zhou, Erdős-Hajnal beyond the five-vertex path, sentence after Theorem 1.9
- Maria Chudnovsky, Alex Scott, Paul Seymour, and Sophie Spirkl, Erdős-Hajnal for graphs with no 5-hole, proof of Theorem 8.1