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⇱ Erdős Problem #737


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Let $G$ be a graph with chromatic number $\aleph_1$. Must there exist an edge $e$ such that, for all large $n$, $G$ contains a cycle of length $n$ containing $e$?
#737: [EHS74][Er81]
graph theory | chromatic number
A problem of Erdős, Hajnal, and Shelah [EHS74], who proved that $G$ must contain all sufficiently large cycles (see [594]).

This is true, and was proved by Thomassen [Th83].

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