Caterpillars in Erods-Hajnal

Series
Graph Theory Working Seminar
Time
Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - 4:30pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Michail Sarantis – Georgia Tech
Organizer
Xingxing Yu

The well known Erdos-Hajnal Conjecture states that every graph has the Erdos-Hajnal (EH) property. That is, for every $H$, there exists a $c=c(H)>0$ such that every graph $G$ with no induced copy of $H$ has the property $hom(G):=max\{\alpha(G),\omega(G)\}\geq |V(G)|^{c}$. Let $H,J$ be subdivisions of caterpillar graphs. Liebenau, Pilipczuk, Seymour and Spirkl proved that the EH property holds if we forbid both $H$ and $\overline{J}.$ We will discuss the proof of this result.