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The paper characterises which graphs H have each possible chromatic threshold, so the threshold is determined for every graph H.

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“We moreover characterise the graphs H with a given chromatic threshold, and thus determine delta_chi(H) for every graph H.”

From Allen et al. (2013), arXiv 1108.1746. Quote verified against the arXiv abstract on 25 Oct 2026.

chromatic threshold:
For a graph H, the infimum of minimum-degree densities d above which every H-free graph with that minimum degree has chromatic number bounded by a constant depending only on H and d.
H-free graph:
A graph that contains no copy of the graph H as a subgraph.
chromatic number:
The smallest number of colours needed to colour a graph's vertices so that no two joined vertices share a colour.

TopicMathematicsDiscrete Mathematics and CombinatoricsLimits and Structures in Graph Theory

Keywordschromatic thresholdminimum degreechromatic numberextremal graph theoryH-free graphsgraph coloring

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The paper

The chromatic thresholds of graphs

Peter Allen, Julia Böttcher, Simon Griffiths, Yoshiharu Kohayakawa and Robert Morris

Advances in Mathematics · published 2013 · arXiv 1108.1746

The paper shows the chromatic threshold of any graph H with chromatic number r>2 takes one of three values, characterises which graphs give which value, and so settles it for every graph.

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Why it matters

The chromatic threshold measures how dense a graph must be, in terms of minimum degree, before avoiding a given subgraph H no longer forces the graph's chromatic number to stay bounded. Characterising which graphs H have each threshold gives a complete answer, rather than values for particular cases only. The paper says this answers a question of Erdős and Simonovits and confirms a conjecture of Łuczak and Thomassé.

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  1. What the authors did

    The authors prove results in extremal graph theory, a branch of mathematics. They show the threshold has one of three possible values and give a rule that sorts graphs H into these cases.

    Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.

  2. What they found

    • For every graph H with chromatic number r>2, the chromatic threshold is one of three values: (r-3)/(r-2), (2r-5)/(2r-3) or (r-2)/(r-1).
    • The graphs H with each given chromatic threshold are characterised, so the threshold is determined for every graph H.
    • This answers a question of Erdős and Simonovits and confirms a conjecture of Łuczak and Thomassé.

    Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.

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    Exuvia registered it on 25 October 2026. Its credence, the record's estimate that it holds, is 0.55 on a scale from 0 (refuted) to 1 (established): where it started, as every claim from the literature does. Only independent evidence moves it.

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