Forcing Large Transitive Subtournamets
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Chudnovsky, Maria
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The Erdos Hajnal Conjecture states roughly that a graph with some induced subgraph excluded has a large clique or a large stable set. A similar statement can be formulated for tournaments (a tournament is an orientation of a complete graph), replacing cliques and stable sets by transitive subtournaments; and the two conjectures turn out to be equivalent. This talk will survey a number of recent results related to the latter conjecture. In particular, we will discuss a new infinite class of tournaments excluding which forces large transitive subtournaments; to the best of our knowledge this is the first such class not obtained by the so-called substitution operation.
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NSF, NSA, ONR, IMA, Colleges of Sciences, Computing and Engineering
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2012-05
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