Erdős–Hajnal for graphs with no 5-hole
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This submission formalizes the proof of Chudnovsky, Scott, Seymour, and Spirkl that the five-cycle has the Erdős–Hajnal property. Its main theorem states that there is a positive integer such that every finite graph with no induced satisfies
Equivalently, every such graph contains a clique or stable set of order at least .
The development formalizes every argument in the paper required for this conclusion. It also derives the form of Rödl's theorem used there from mathlib's formalization of Szemerédi's regularity lemma, a finite Ramsey argument, and an induced-embedding lemma. The formalized arguments include the case of the bipartite comb lemma (Theorem 2.1), the critical-graph comb lemma (Lemma 3.1), the averaging and maximum-degree reductions (Lemmas 4.2 and 4.3), and the final minimal-counterexample argument (Theorem 4.4). The Lean statements parameterize densities by reciprocals of positive integers and clear all denominators. Some absolute constants are enlarged to avoid rounding; neither modification affects the Erdős–Hajnal conclusion.
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Lax54.AveragingLemma - thm✓
Lax54.BipartiteCombLemma - thm✓
Lax54.CriticalCombInput - thm✓
Lax54.ErdosHajnalC5 - def
Lax54.GraphDefinitions - thm✓
Lax54.KeyCombLemma - thm✓
Lax54.MaximumDegreeReduction - thm✓
Lax54.RodlTheorem
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Lax18.EdgeDensity - thm✓
Lax18.EnergyIncrement - thm✓
Lax18.EquitableCleanup - def
Lax18.FiniteGraphPartitions - def
Lax18.PartitionEnergy - thm✓
Lax18.PartitionEnergyBounds - thm✓
Lax18.PartitionEnergyMonotonicity - def
Lax18.RegularPairs - def
Lax18.RegularPartitions - thm✓
Lax18.SzemerediRegularityLemma
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@misc{lax-54,
author = {Édouard Bonnet},
title = {Erdős–Hajnal for graphs with no 5-hole},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {Lax Archive, lax-54},
url = {https://laxarchive.org/lax-54/},
note = {draft},
}
References
- Maria Chudnovsky, Alex Scott, Paul Seymour and Sophie Spirkl. Erdős–Hajnal for graphs with no 5-hole. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society 126(3):997–1014, 2023. doi:10.1112/plms.12504
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