On the growth rate of dichromatic numbers of finite subdigraphs

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Abstract: Chris Lambie-Hanson proved recently that for every function f:mathbbNightarrowmathbbN there is an aleph1-chromatic graph G of size 2aleph1 such that every (n+3)-chromatic subgraph of G has at least f(n) vertices. Previously, this fact was just known to be consistently true due to P. Komj'ath and S. Shelah. We investigate the analogue of this question for directed graphs. In the first part of the paper we give a simple method to construct for an arbitrary f:mathbbNightarrowmathbbN an uncountably dichromatic digraph D of size 2aleph0 such that every (n+2)-dichromatic subgraph of D has at least f(n) vertices. In the second part we show that it is consistent with arbitrary large continuum that in the previous theorem "uncountably dichromatic" and "of size 2aleph0" can be replaced by "kappa-dichromatic" and "of size kappa" respectively where kappa is universally quantified with bounds aleph0leqkappaleq2aleph0.












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