Chromatic numbers of graphs -- large gaps (Q313434)

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    Chromatic numbers of graphs -- large gaps
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6626070

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      Chromatic numbers of graphs -- large gaps (English)
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      9 September 2016
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      We say that a graph \(G\) is \((\aleph_0,\kappa)\)-chromatic if \(\mathrm{Chr}(G)=\kappa\), while \(\mathrm{Chr}(G') \leq \aleph_0\) for any subgraph \(G'\) of \(G\) of size \(<| G| \). The main result of this paper reads as follows. If \(\square_{\lambda}+\mathrm{CH}_{\lambda}\) holds for a given uncountable cardinal \(\lambda\), then for every cardinal \(\kappa \leq \lambda\), there exists an \((\aleph_{0},\kappa)\)-chromatic graph of size \(\lambda ^{+}\). We also study \((\aleph_{0}, \lambda ^{+})\)-chromatic graphs of size \(\lambda ^{+}\). In particular, it is proved that if \(0^{\sharp}\) does not exist, then for every singular strong limit cardinal \(\lambda\), there exists an \((\aleph_{0}, \lambda ^{+})\)-chromatic graph of size \(\lambda ^{+}\).
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      chromatic number
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      uncountable cardinal
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      singular cardinal
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      infinite cardinal
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      Jensen's axiom
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      Cohen subset
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      cofinal subset
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      gap
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