On the chromatic number of triangle-free graphs of large minimum degree (Q1410410)
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On the chromatic number of triangle-free graphs of large minimum degree (English)
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14 October 2003
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It is proved that, for each real number \(c>1/3\), the triangle-free graphs with minimum degree at least \(cn\) (\(n\) the number of vertices) have bounded chromatic number. This settles a longstanding open problem of Erdős and Simonovits who showed that there is no such result for \(c<1/3\).
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triangle-free graphs
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chromatic number
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