Three hundred million points suffice (Q1122573)
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Three hundred million points suffice (English)
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1988
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In the 1960's, Paul Erdős asked if a graph existed with no complete subgraphs on four or more vertices and which had the property that, if the edges are two colored, there must always be a monochromatic triangle. In 1970, \textit{J. Folkman} [Graphs with monochromatic complete subgraphs in every edge coloring, SIAM J. Appl. Math. 18, 19-29 (1970; Zbl 0193.531)] proved that such a graph existed as did \textit{J. Nesetřil} and \textit{V. Rödl} [Recent Adv. Graph Theory, Proc. Symp. Prague 1974, 405- 412 (1975; Zbl 0325.05120)]. However, the graphs were quite large and Erdős offered a reward for the discovery of such a graph on less than \(10^{10}\) vertices. In this paper, the author claims that reward with a graph on 3,000,000,000 vertices. (The 300 million claimed in the title became 3 billion after a simple computational error was corrected in [ibid. 50, No. 2, 323 (1989; Zbl 0676.05002)].)
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no complete subgraphs on four or more vertices
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monochromatic triangle
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