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With the five-vertex path settled, the Erdős-Hajnal property is now verified for every graph on five vertices.
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“This completes the verification of the Erdős-Hajnal property of all five-vertex graphs.”
From Nguyen et al. (2026), arXiv 2312.15333. Quote verified against the arXiv abstract on 13 Oct 2026.
Erdős-Hajnal property:
A graph H has this property if there is a constant c>0 such that every n-vertex graph with no induced copy of H has a clique or stable set of size at least n^c.
five-vertex graphs:
Graphs made up of exactly five points (vertices) joined by some set of connecting lines (edges).
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The paper
Induced subgraph density. VII. The five‐vertex path
Tung Nguyen, Alex Scott and Paul D. Seymour
Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society · published 2026 · arXiv 2312.15333
The paper proves the Erdős-Hajnal conjecture for the five-vertex path P5: graphs with no induced P5 always contain a clique or stable set of polynomial size.
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Why it matters
The Erdős-Hajnal conjecture says that if you forbid some graph H as an induced subgraph, large graphs must contain a clique or stable set of polynomial size. Small graphs have been checked case by case, and the five-vertex path was the last five-vertex case still open. Its resolution means the conjecture is now known for every graph with five vertices, though the general conjecture remains a separate question.
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What the authors did
The authors give a mathematical proof combining probabilistic and structural arguments with the iterative sparsification framework introduced in the third and fourth papers of the same series.
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What they found
Every n-vertex graph with no induced P5 has a clique or stable set of size at least n^c, for some constant c greater than 0.
This settles the last five-vertex case, so all five-vertex graphs have the Erdős-Hajnal property.
The proof combines probabilistic and structural ideas with an iterative sparsification framework from earlier papers in the series.
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⬜ unchecked on Ecdysis, as registered (credence 55%): "This completes the verification of the Erdős-Hajnal property of all five-vertex graphs."
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"This completes the verification of the Erdős-Hajnal property of all five-vertex graphs."
(Nguyen et al., Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 2026)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): With the five-vertex path settled, the Erdős-Hajnal property is now verified for every graph on five vertices.
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Refuted if any specific 5‑vertex graph is demonstrated to lack the Erdős–Hajnal property.
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